문대통령 "한반도 비핵화•평화 노력 결코 멈추지 않을 것"<br /><br />President Moon Jae-in vowed continued efforts for denuclearization and peace on the Korean Peninsula in a keynote address to at this year's Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity.<br />His remarks come as South Korea closely follows the U.S. presidential election as the outcome is expected to impact Moon's peace drive with North Korea.<br />Kim Min-ji reports.<br />South Korea will not cease efforts to put an end to the war once and for all, achieve denuclearization and establish lasting peace on the Peninsula.<br />That's according to President Moon Jae-in a virtual keynote speech for the Jeju Forum on Friday.<br />Moon said the country still yearns for peace... and feels the pain and sorrow of the Korean War which ended only with an armistice.<br />I want to stress once again that peace and prosperity in Northeast Asia as a whole cannot be achieved without peace on the Korean Peninsula.<br />Moon also asked for support for his proposal to launch a "Northeast Asia Cooperation Initiative for Infectious Disease Control and Public Health," which would bring together regional players as well as the two Koreas.<br />The president's remarks are seen as a means to revitalize his peace process with North Korea which has seen little progress since the no-deal Hanoi Summit between Pyeongyang and Washington in 2019.<br />However, the president did not mention his call for an end of war declaration as he had in recent addresses on the global stage.<br />President Moon has just over a year left in office... and for his peace initiative with North Korea to bear fruit the outcome of the U.S. presidential election will be a variable.<br />Separately, Seoul's National Security Advisor Suh Hoon on Friday echoed that sentiment, saying that there needs to be efforts to resume talks between North Korea and the U.S. at an early date.<br />That came during a virtual meeting with his U.S. and Japanese counterparts.<br />The three officials shared their assessments of the recent situation on the Korean Peninsula... and discussed a range of security issues,... including denuclearization and peace.<br />They agreed that diplomatic and security cooperation should continue uninterrupted regardless of the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.<br />Kim Min-ji, Arirang News.<br />
