SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday proposed an 'Inter-Korean Working Group' aimed at relieving soaring tensions with Pyongyang and exploring avenues for economic cooperation.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday proposed an 'Inter-Korean Working Group ' aimed at relieving soaring tensions with Pyongyang and exploring avenues for economic cooperation.Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points in years, with the North recently announcing the deployment of 250 ballistic missile launchers to its southern border.
The body 'could take up any issue ranging from relieving tensions to economic cooperation, people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and disaster and climate-change responses,' Yoon said.Yoon also underscored the 'need to change the minds of the North Korean people to make them ardently desire a freedom-based unification.''Even though the North Korean regime rejected our offer yet again, we will never stop making offers of humanitarian aid,' Yoon said.
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