North Korean chief Kim Jong-un (middle) inspects an unnamed navy base on Sept. 11. (KCNA-Yonhap)
PRAGUE — President Yoon Suk Yeol’s workplace on Thursday denounced the liberal politicians’ requires South Korea’s peaceable coexistence with North Korea, reiterating the conservative administration’s push for peaceable reunification as enshrined within the ” Unification Doctrine” in August.
An official of the presidential workplace stated on situation of anonymity in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, that the peaceable reunification of the Korean Peninsula “has garnered the assist of the worldwide group together with the Czech Republic.”
The official added that those that assume in any other case and as a substitute observe the idea of the peaceable coexistence of the 2 Koreas — both by prioritizing peace over reunification or by introducing the confederation system on the peninsula — would “sympathize with the intention of the North Korea regime.”
This was in response to the claims by liberal former president Moon Jae-in that the present discourse over the peace and reunification on the Korean Peninsula “wants an entire evaluation,” at a discussion board Thursday in Gwangju to mark the sixth anniversary of the inter-Korean summit and the excellent navy settlement in 2018.
Former president Moon Jae-in speaks at a discussion board in Gwangju to mark the sixth anniversary of the inter-Korean summit in 2018 on Thursday. (Yonhap)
Former chief of employees Im Jong-seok, who labored with Moon, additionally stated on the venue that Seoul ought to “face the truth and settle for the notion of the confederation of the 2 Koreas.” He additionally urged the repeal of the Nationwide Safety Act.
Im additionally known as for the revision of the Structure, which states that the territory of South Korea “shall encompass the Korean peninsula and its adjoining islands,” saying the article “triggers an aversion to a proactive peace course of and reconciliation (between the 2 Koreas), in addition to a longstanding ideological battle.”
The identical article served because the grounds of the Yoon administration’s argument that Seoul should push for peaceable reunification. The official of the presidential workplace described these sympathizing with the idea of peaceable coexistence with North Korea as being “anticonstitutional.”
North Korea declared in December 2023 that reunification “can by no means be achieved” as its chief Kim Jong-un described the 2 Koreas as “states hostile to one another.” In August, South Korea introduced its personal reunification doctrine to pursue a unified Korean Peninsula that’s “denuclearized, free, peaceable and affluent,” primarily by increasing North Korean folks’s rights.