Lee In-young "Must Revive Inter-Korean Dialogue Sparks from Late This Year to Early Next Year"

Minister of Unification Lee In-young is attending the National Assembly Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee's audit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Unification held at the National Assembly on the 21st, responding to questions from lawmakers. Photo by Yoon Dong-joo doso7@

[Asia Economy Reporter Kang Nahum] On the 6th, Lee In-young, Minister of Unification, said, "The period from the end of this year to the beginning of next year is an extremely important time when we must take at least one necessary step for peace on the Korean Peninsula."

Minister Lee made this remark during an encouragement speech at the launch ceremony of the "DMZ Peace Road Unification Walk East-West Crossing" held at the Yeolsoe Observatory in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi Province, saying, "This is a very precious time when we must exert all our focus to revive the spark of dialogue beyond the deadlock in inter-Korean relations and to nurture its potential."

Minister Lee sequentially mentioned the 2017 North Korea-US tension phase marked by the 'nuclear button exchange,' the spring of peace on the Korean Peninsula in 2018, and the deadlock in inter-Korean relations following the Hanoi no-deal in 2019, emphasizing that regardless of the situation, we must autonomously move toward peace on the Korean Peninsula.

He said, "No matter what the weather of peace on the Korean Peninsula is like or how complicated the surrounding situation is, the only way to create 'true change' and 'peace' is to steadily walk unwaveringly in the direction we must go."

He added, "Peace can also be completed to an irreversible level when it is created through our own efforts and when more and more people walk this path."

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