On April 27, the government announced the first anniversary of the Panmunjom Declaration 'Peace Performance', 'The Road and the Way', and said that the North did not give advance notice of the event.

The Ministry of Unification announced today that a peace performance commemorating the first anniversary of the Panmunjom Declaration will be held at Panmunjom on the 27th in a press release, saying that Korean, American, Japanese and Chinese artists will perform on special stage.

4.27 Panmunjom Declaration The first anniversary of the Panmunjom Declaration, which attracted attention to whether the North-South joint event will be held, but this event was prepared as a sole event of our own.

We could not confirm the attendance of the North Korean people.

The unification ministry said it would notify North Korea at an appropriate time for the event to be held at a meeting with reporters.

It is not known whether North Korea will respond to the event which is less than a week in consideration of the recent situation of the inter-Korean dialogue becoming lukewarm.

The unification minister said it would be good if it could be a joint event for the first anniversary of Panmunjom, but he said he would prepare the event considering all situations.

He also said, "Wishful thinking is different from what we can actually do."

However, according to the response of the North, the reporter questioned whether North Korean personnel would be able to attend.