On the 24th, North Korea announced its first official position on the declaration of an end to the war and its hostile policy in a statement by its foreign minister.
President Moon Jae-in said in an in-flight interview on his return home that "the United States and China have already agreed to it." "The issue of denuclearization has been added to the issue of how to link the end-of-war declaration with denuclearization negotiations between the two countries. Now, dialogue is necessary again." I proposed it because the time has come,” he said on the 23rd.
Vice Foreign Minister Ri Tae-seong said in a statement on the 24th, "Amid the continued strengthening of the US-South Korean alliance, the declaration of an end to the war will only bring about disastrous results that destroy the strategic balance of the region and drive the north and the south into an endless arms race." .
Seven hours later, Kim Yeo-jeong, vice-minister of the Workers' Party of Korea, said in a personal statement, "It doesn't make sense for countries that have been hostile for more than half a century to declare an end to the war with all that could be the spark of war." These double and illogical prejudices, vicious habits and hostile attitudes that glorify and try to glorify our legitimate right to self-defense and slander them must be abandoned.”
The North Korean Foreign Minister’s statement regarding “the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK” was “the U.S. military force deployed or in operation on the Korean Peninsula and in the surrounding land, sea, air and water, the vast latest war assets, and various nominal war exercises every year. They are showing that the US hostile policy toward the DPRK is getting more and more vicious day by day. The US-style double standard, which is glorified as “Securing deterrence,” is also a product of the hostile policy toward the DPRK,” he said.
North Korea's foreign minister continued, "The US's withdrawal of its double standards and hostile policy is the top priority for stability and peace guarantees on the Korean peninsula."
Regarding the UN speech on the 'end of war declaration', President Moon Jae-in said, "When I saw the reaction reported in the domestic media, especially the reaction of the opposition party, I thought 'there is no understanding of the declaration of the end of the war'. In the inter-Korean joint declaration, it was already agreed that 'a declaration of an end to the war by three or four parties' was already agreed upon. It was meant to promote North and South America, but if China wants it, we can work together,” he told reporters on the flight back home on the 23rd.
President Moon continued, “Since then, the United States and China have already agreed to the declaration of an end to the war by three or four parties. It has only been negotiated between the two countries. We proposed it because it is now time for dialogue again,” he said.
“A declaration of an end to the war is different from a peace treaty,” Moon said.
Park Soo-hyeon, senior presidential communications chief, appeared on YTN on the same day and said, "There doesn't seem to be a gap between the two discourses. All of them gave meaning to the declaration of an end to the war, and the withdrawal of the US hostile policy toward North Korea was mentioned as a prerequisite for the discussion of the end of the war. done,” he said.
Senior Park then sent a message focused on the United States, and Vice-Chairman Kim said that it seems that he ordered the role of South Korea, and said, "As a result, a process of consultation and dialogue is necessary to satisfy that condition."