South Korea and the U.S. foreign ministries conduct department-level consultations to discuss affairs with North Korea

　　Chinanews.com, November 2nd, comprehensive Korean media reported that on the 1st local time, South Korea and the United States foreign affairs department held a director-general consultation meeting to discuss the Korean War "End War Declaration" conception, humanitarian assistance and other affairs on North Korea.

　　The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that on the 1st local time, Lin Jiashou, head of the South Korean Peace Diplomacy Planning Group, held talks with Jung H. Pak, the U.S. Special Deputy Representative for North Korea.

The two sides discussed the current situation on the Korean Peninsula, humanitarian assistance to North Korea, and plans to resume dialogue with North Korea.

　　According to the report, previously, at the meeting of special representatives of South Korea and the United States to North Korea, various plans for establishing mutual trust with North Korea were discussed to guide North Korea back to the track of dialogue.

This meeting discussed how to refine and implement the above-mentioned consultation results.

　　The State Council of South Korea stated that this consultation has further refined the common goal of South Korea and the United States, which is to achieve the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the establishment of a lasting peace mechanism.

　　According to reports, this consultation may have conducted the final stage of coordination on the program of providing humanitarian assistance to North Korea.

　　The report pointed out that in addition to the "Declaration of the End of the War," South Korea and the United States have been discussing ways to relieve North Korea's plight through humanitarian assistance, and to a large extent a consensus has been formed.

The categories that South Korea and the United States are considering assistance include anti-epidemic supplies, water purification agents, etc., but the new crown vaccine is not included in the specific discussion.

　　On October 29th, Ruguid, Minister of Peace Negotiations on the Peninsula of the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Kim Sung, the Special Representative for North Korea Policy of the US Department of State, had just conducted telephone consultations on North Korea-related affairs.

The two sides also held offline consultations in Washington and Seoul from October 18th to 19th and 23rd to 24th.