White House: U.S. and South Korea measures may be different... end of war declaration

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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 US and South Korea's chief nuclear representatives 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, they are fundamentally the same on the strategic core plan.]

It is important to bring North Korea to the table to resume denuclearization negotiations, 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 South Korea and the United States, 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 administration are concerned that North Korea will not respond even after the end of the war.

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