North Korea urges Seoul to talk peace
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NORTH Korea yesterday urged South Korea to accept leader Kim Jong-Un’s proposal for military talks and to ease tensions that surged after the North’s fourth nuclear test in January.
Kim had offered the military dialogue during a marathon speech to the recently concluded congress of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party — the first event of its kind for more than 35 years.
In an “open letter” published yesterday by the official KCNA news agency, the North’s National Defence Commission said urgent steps were needed to overcome the current “catastrophic state” of inter-Korean ties.
“South Korea must actively respond to our proposal to hold military talks,” the letter said, adding that peace could not be achieved at “gunpoint.”
“We are proposing to put all issues of interest on the table to openly discuss and resolve them,” it said.
But Seoul rebuffed the offer yesterday, after earlier dismissing Kim’s original proposal as posturing.
“We cannot see it as a sincere gesture,” a defence ministry official said after the letter was published.
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