U.S. State Department special representative for North Korea, Sung Kim, announced that South Korea, the U.S. and Japan had three-party consultations on the issue of Japan's "abductor" in "South Korea's proposal for an end-of-war declaration."
After consulting with Noh Gyu-duk, head of the Korean Peninsula Peace Negotiation Headquarters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea on the 18th at the State Department in Washington DC on the 18th, Representative Kim said to reporters, “We discussed the proposal for an end-of-war declaration in Korea, and visited Seoul this week to discuss these and other issues. of mutual concern),” he said.
"In line with the Biden-Harris administration's focus on human rights, we will continue to defend the human rights of North Koreans and call for an immediate resolution to the abduction issue," Kim said. I am ready to do it,” the Voice of America (VOA) reported on the same day.
"The trilateral cooperation between the US, South Korea and Japan is absolutely key to our approach to North Korea," Kim said.
To this end, Kim said, “We will seek diplomacy with North Korea to make tangible progress in improving the security of the United States and its allies. thing is included "The United States continues to contact North Korea to resume dialogue with Pyongyang," he said.
General Noh Gyu-deok told reporters, "In particular, a significant part of today's discussions was devoted to in-depth discussions related to the end-of-war declaration. ” he said.
The Seoul consultation announced on the 19th is a consultation between South Korea, the United States, and Japan's chief representative for North Korea's nuclear program in which General Manager Noh Gyu-deok, Representative Kim Mi Sung, and Director Funakoshi Takehiro of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Asia and Oceania, participate.
The consultations with the chief representatives of South Korea and the United States will be followed by three-way consultations in Tokyo, Japan on the 14th, Jakarta, Indonesia on the 30th, Washington on the 19th, and Seoul, Korea, the US and Japan on the 19th.
In an article titled “Echoes of Unification” in North Korea on the 19th, Hyun-cheol, head of the Institute for National Unification of North Korea, said, “South Korea continues to raise the issue of declaring the end of the war. This is because South Korea is clinging to joint military exercises aimed at us in a riot with the United States and modernizing and enhancing war equipment for attacks in various fields, contrary to the spirit of the April 27 Panmunjom Declaration and the September 19 Pyongyang Joint Declaration,” he said. said.
Director Hyun-cheol continued, "Even if we declare an end to the war with the present serious hostility and confrontation unattended, we will fall into a vicious cycle of confrontation again before the ink of the declaration has dried." It is only natural to change preferentially from the perspective and policy against the DPRK hostile to the DPRK, which is the root of such a habitual attitude, such as a biased view toward guarantees and others, and an intense double attitude.”
"Newsis" said, "After President Moon Jae-in's proposal to declare the end of the war at the UN General Assembly, diplomatic and intelligence officials in Korea and the United States have been holding their breath and discussing the matter. It is noteworthy whether discussions on humanitarian cooperation between the ROK and the United States, which are known to be in the final stage, including the declaration of the end of the war, will materialize within this year,” reported the Washington-U.S. nuclear delegation meeting.