The two Koreas and the United States' move to discuss an end to the 1950-53 Korean War will be a starting point for bringing a permanent peace to the Korean Peninsula, the chief of the ruling party said Monday.
After meeting a senior North Korean official in Washington last week, US President Donald Trump raised the possibility of discussing a formal end to the war when he meets North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 12 in Singapore.
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Choo Mi-ae (Yonhap) |
"Discussions over an end to the war will be a starting point for setting up a permanent peace regime (on the peninsula)," Choo Mi-ae, the chairwoman of the ruling Democratic Party (DP), said.
"The DP will support a successful US-North Korea summit and do its part to establish peace on the peninsula through the declaration of the war's end and a peace treaty."
At their summit in late April, President Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un agreed to seek to declare an end to the Korean War this year and work towards a peace treaty.
The two Koreas remain technically at war as the Korean War ended in a truce not a peace treaty. (Yonhap)