South Korean President Calls for Talks With North Korea on Peace Treaty
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has proposed starting talks with North Korea to address its nuclear program and sign a peace treaty. This would formally end the more than 70-year technical state of war on the peninsula.
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has called for renewed dialogue with North Korea, aiming to reach an agreement both on the issue of Pyongyang's nuclear program and on concluding a formal peace treaty.
A prolonged state of war
The Korean Peninsula remains formally in a state of war, since only an armistice agreement was signed in 1953, not a peace treaty. Since then, the peninsula has remained divided between communist North Korea and the western-aligned South Korea. This situation has now lasted more than seven decades.
The president's proposal
Lee Jae-myung stressed the need to begin talks that could finally end this technical conflict while also addressing the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear program. The source text does not specify concrete formats or timelines for such negotiations.
