Korean Media: South Korean President Proposes Abandoning Hostility and Coexistence with North Korea
According to Yonhap News Agency, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung attended the 107th anniversary of the March 1st Independence Movement on the 1st and delivered a speech, proposing to the North Korean side to abandon the hostile policy and achieve peaceful coexistence.
The report stated that Lee Jae-myung said that the South is willing to work with the North to realize the dream of peaceful coexistence that the pioneers once earnestly wished for. North Korea has formulated and is about to implement a new five-year plan, and hopes that the North will quickly return to dialogue, move out of the dark past, and work with the South to head towards a new future.
Lee Jae-myung emphasized that upholding the spirit of cooperation and coexistence and mutual trust, building a Korean Peninsula of common development and peaceful coexistence, is the practical way to truly inherit the spirit of the March 1st Revolution. We should not forget the historical lessons that hostility and confrontation are harmful to both sides.
Lee Jae-myung also reiterated that the South Korean government will respect the North Korean system, take no hostile actions, and not pursue any form of absorption unification, and will continue to do everything needed to achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula and restore inter-Korean trust.
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