Inter-Korea deal ‘turning point’ in North-South ties
A North Korean negotiator involved in the recent high-level peace talks with the South has hailed the outcome of the discussions as a "dramatic turning point" for relations between the two neighbors.
Kim Yang-Gon, a senior official in charge of South Korea affairs, said on Thursday that the deal reached at the talks carried the potential for an improvement in cross-border ties, reported the North’s official KCNA news agency.
The agreement not only resolved a "touch-and-go situation," but also represented a "dramatic turning point for peace, stability, reconciliation and cooperation," Kim said.
The official also called on Seoul and Pyongyang to avoid complacency in a bid to maintain the momentum created by the accord, emphasizing that "both sides" should learn a lesson from the recent crisis.
"We will actively make efforts to improve relations," he said.
On August 25, North and South Korea struck a deal in the Panmunjom village on the de facto border between the two countries in a bid to de-escalate growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Under the terms of the agreement, North Korea would abandon a "quasi-state of war" it had declared with the South, and Seoul would stop broadcasting propaganda by loudspeaker across the joint border.
Tension has been running high in the Korean Peninsula since Seoul earlier this month turned the loudspeakers back on after it blamed the North for a landmine explosion in August that maimed two of its soldiers. Pyongyang, however, denied any role in the incident.
The two Koreas remain technically at war after the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.
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