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Amid the recent increase in contact between South Korea and the United States over the issue of the end of the war, the US National Security Adviser said the US and South Korea's approaches to North Korea may be somewhat different. Analysis is coming out whether there is a temperature difference over the declaration of an end to the war.



Correspondent Yunsu Kim from Washington.



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U.S. National Security Adviser Sullivan said that South Korea and the U.S. are intensively discussing when asked about their position on the Korean Peninsula end-of-war declaration.



It was also evaluated that the recent discussions between the chief representatives of North Korea and the United States were very productive and constructive.



However, he noted that although the two countries are in the same position at the core of their North Korea policy, which is based on diplomacy and deterrence, detailed measures may be different.



[Sullivan/US National Security Adviser: We may have slightly different views on the exact sequence, timing, and conditions for each action. However, in terms of the strategic core plan, they are fundamentally the same.] It



is important to bring North Korea to the table to resume negotiations on denuclearization, but there may be differences in methodology.



South Korea is persuading that the end-of-war declaration could be the gateway to the resumption of dialogue between the US and North Korea for denuclearization, but the US has yet to give an answer.



It is known that through recent contacts between the United States and South Korea, some explanation has been given to the purpose of the declaration of an end to the war as a political declaration that does not have legal binding force.



However, it is reported that some in the Biden government are concerned about the possibility that North Korea will not respond even after the end of the war.



Therefore, there is also a prospect that the declaration of an end to the war will become more visible only when North Korea stops provocations and responds first to a series of dialogue proposals from the ROK and the United States.