South Korea's Lee urges talks with North Korea to replace armistice with peace
Lee urged direct talks to replace the armistice with a peace regime and said discussions could also address North Korea’s nuclear buildup.
- On Saturday, Korean President Lee Jae Myung called for talks with North Korea to formally end the Korean War, seeking to replace the decades-old armistice with a peace arrangement at a ceremony marking Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule.
- The two Koreas remain technically at war because the 1950-53 conflict ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty; North Korea has repeatedly declared itself an "irreversible" nuclear state since 2019.
- Colonel Ryan Donald, spokesman for the US and South Korean Combined Forces Command, warned this week that North Korea's deployment to the European war changed the threat his soldiers face, saying "Our training accounts for that threat."
- Despite Lee's repeated offers, Pyongyang has not responded; instead, military ties between Pyongyang and Moscow have deepened, with analysts noting North Korea receives food, energy, and technology for supplying munitions to Ukraine.
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is expected to visit Russia later this year to discuss further weapons supplies, while Pyongyang recently fired two missiles after bristling over Japan's military build-up.
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South Korea advocated direct dialogue with the DPRK, which could put an end to the formal state of war between the two countries.
Lee made the proposal during a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule from 1910 to 1945.
South Korea Wants to Talk to North About Ending War
South Korea's leader is publicly asking Pyongyang to help close the book on a war that never officially ended. President Lee Jae Myung used a Liberation Day speech on Saturday to invite North Korea to talks on formally declaring the Korean War over and replacing the 1953 ceasefire with a...
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