The Democratic People's Republic of Korea reaffirmed its position to engage in dialogue without international interference with South Korea to achieve peace on the 67th anniversary of the U.S. war on the Asian peninsula.
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The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland in a statement called on Seoul to begin "the reunification of the peninsula, to abandon confrontation and its alliance with the United States."
It also said that north-south relations should avoid "parallel enforcement of sanctions and dialogue," and emphasized its invariable position "to urgently adopt measures, in order to stop Washington's intimidating actions."
The statement also urged all Koreans from both north and south to join the struggle to open a new period of normalization of relations between the two areas. South Korean President Moon Jae-in expressed a willingness to talk with the DPRK during his presidential campaign, although he recently strengthened the bilateral alliance with the U.S. and called for "resolving the nuclear issue of North Korea."
South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak Yon also threatened, "North Korea should advance in the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and respect human rights."