Conflicting positions were revealed when the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Joint Statement issued a "continuous dialogue on a denuclearized Korean Peninsula" and Foreign Minister Park Jin announced a "improvement of the North Korean people after denuclearization of North Korea".
In a joint statement, the ASEAN foreign ministers stressed the importance of continuous peaceful dialogue among all relevant countries to realize lasting peace and stability on the denuclearized Korean Peninsula.
“We urged all relevant countries to resume peaceful dialogue and continue to work towards realizing lasting peace and stability on the denuclearized Korean Peninsula,” the joint statement said. We urged the complete and expeditious implementation.”
The joint statement continued, “We reiterated our readiness to fulfill a constructive role, including facilitating peaceful dialogue among stakeholders using ASEAN-led platforms, including the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF),” adopted on the 3rd and 5th. day was revealed.
Minister Park said at the ARF, "If North Korea transitions to denuclearization, South Korea will prepare a bold plan to dramatically improve the North Korean economy and the lives of its people."
Ahn Kwang-il, North Korean ambassador to Indonesia and ASEAN ambassador to ASEAN, said on the 6th that “It is known that North Korea has repeated the existing position of criticizing the ‘hostile policy’,” Voice of America (VOA) reported on the 6th.
In the ARF, North Korea's representative also criticized outside interference in the Taiwan issue and supported China, stating that "the unilateralism and arbitrary actions of the United States are causing serious problems in the region." Yonhap News Agency reported on the 5th.
Yonhap News Agency said on the same day that it was "in consultation with the US" about the 'bold plan'.
North Korea's Unification News reported on the same day, "The suggestion that inter-Korean relations and unification issues should be handled based on liberal democracy and the constitution is an unacceptable manifestation of the absurd ambition of 'absorption unification', which makes the confrontation between the north and the south a pre-established fact and further intensifies. It was a criminal act," Nocut News reported on the 7th.
The article continued, the Unification Shinbo said, "If the Republic of Korea takes substantial denuclearization measures, it will provide 'economic cooperation and security with North Korea' in solidarity with the international community." It was a 'bold plan' to properly revise the 'Nuclear Openness 3000' of the Lee Myung-bak administration, which was criticized as an 'impossible absorption unification document' and thrown into the trash can of history a year ago.