North Korea "It's not the time to declare an end to the war... The withdrawal of hostile policies to the US is the top priority"

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North Korea took a negative stance on the declaration of an end to the war, which was proposed by President Moon Jae-in in his speech at the UN General Assembly.

He insisted that it is not yet time to declare an end to the war, and insisted that the United States withdraw its hostile policy first.

Reporter Lee Han-seok reports.

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North Korea took a negative stance on President Moon Jae-in's re-proposal of an end-of-war declaration in his speech at the UN General Assembly.

North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Ri Tae-sung said in a statement that "it is not yet the time to declare an end to the war." "As long as the US hostile policy does not change, even if we declare the end of the war 100 times, nothing will change."

Lee also argued that "the declaration of an end to the Korean War is not helpful at all to stabilizing the situation on the Korean Peninsula at this point, and it can be misused as a smoke screen to cover up the US hostile policy."

"The withdrawal of the U.S.'s double standards and hostile policy is the top priority in securing stability and peace on the Korean Peninsula," Lee said.

In a keynote address to the UN General Assembly on the 22nd in our time, President Moon proposed that the three South and North Americans or the four North and South America and China gather together to declare the end of the war on the Korean Peninsula.

It seems unlikely that a declaration of an end to the war would be made as North Korea expressed its negative stance two days after President Moon's proposal.