North Korea, Pyongyang in Seoul: “End of the war? Premature”

North Korea’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ri Thae Song rejected Seoul’s proposal to “declare” the end of Korea’s war “formally, considering it would be” premature “since” there is no guarantee “that this” leads to the withdrawal of the hostile US policy towards Pyongyang “. “There is no guarantee that the mere declaration of an end to the war will lead to the withdrawal of hostile policies towards North Korea in the current situation of the peninsula which is gradually approaching a sensitive situation,” Ri said, according to a report. reports the KCNA agency, in response to the words of South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the United Nations General Assembly. “Nothing will change as long as the political circumstances” around Pyongyang “remain unchanged” and “the hostile US policy does not change,” he added. On the contrary, according to Ri, there could be “disastrous consequences” that could “upset the strategic balance in the region”. “What is clear – he continued, noting how the alliance between Washington and Seoul” strengthens “more and more – is that as long as the hostile US policy towards North Korea persists, the main obstacle to ending the war, this an end will simply be nominal even if declared “. In 1953 an agreement ended the war that broke out three years earlier, but there was no peace treaty. Ri referred, among other things, to the announcement of the birth of Aukus – alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and the US, which plans to equip Australia with nuclear-powered submarines – to reiterate that it is “still too early to declare the end of the war”. It must be “clearly understood” that a statement to that effect “does not help at all” to stabilize the situation, he argued, but could be used to “cover up hostile US policies”. “The withdrawal of the hostile policy of the double standard by Washington is – he insisted – the number one priority for stabilizing the situation on the Korean peninsula and guaranteeing peace”.