President Moon Jae-in spoke of “peaceful reunification” to North Korea, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un expressed his dream of inter-Korean relations through “improvement and development” in a personal letter.
The North Korean Central News Agency reported on the 22nd that Chairman Kim exchanged a personal letter with President Moon, saying, "The leaders of the north and the south believe that if each other holds hope and makes sincere efforts, inter-Korean relations will improve and develop in line with the aspirations and expectations of the people. He shared his views on this matter and sent warm greetings to his compatriots in the north and the south."
On the 22nd, a spokesperson for the Blue House said, "President Moon and Chairman Kim mentioned the past five years in an exchange of personal letters and shared the view that they are making efforts for peace and unification of the Korean Peninsula through mutual trust and dialogue." The difference was huge.
Regarding the personal letter sent by President Moon first, the Blue House said, "The progress of the dialogue is in the hands of the next government, and I hope that Chairman Kim will engage in inter-Korean cooperation while maintaining the cause of peace on the Korean Peninsula." "The agreement should be the foundation for unification, and I will always believe and wait for the efforts of the two Koreas to be revived as a valuable driving force for peace on the Korean Peninsula," he said.
In response to Chairman Kim, the Blue House made clear, "We did not achieve what we had hoped for, but we have made historic declarations and agreements that will be milestones in inter-Korean relations, and have evaluated them as an indelible achievement." North Korea seems to have pointed out the agreement as a 'milestone'.
North Korea continued, "There are things I regret looking at now, but I do not change the thought that inter-Korean relations can be improved and developed in line with the expectations of the people if the South and the North continue to pour their sincerity based on the efforts they have made so far. ', the 'improvement development' corresponds to an approach to disarmament.
The Blue House expressed it as an exchange of personal letters, saying, "President Moon expressed regret that inter-Korean dialogue did not reach the place he had hoped for. directly related to the conversation.
North Korea excluded U.S.-DPRK relations as 'inter-Korean relations' with respect to President Moon, and in the expression 'beyond confrontation', pointed to the increase in arms as the core of the 'double standard of hostile policy' toward South Korea and expressed 'severance of inter-Korean dialogue' as a confrontation. did.The South and the North agreed on “disarmament” for the first time with the Panmunjom Declaration agreed at the summit, but under the Moon Jae-in Trump regime, they further strengthened the policy of increasing arms.
After that, President-elect Yun Seok-yeol revealed the North Korean policy of reliance on military power to increase arms from the election promises.
North Korea announced the confrontation with the arms-boosting system at the Labor Party Congress in January last year, and began to separate South Korea from contact with North Korea.