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South Korea President Lee Jae-Myung said that he would restore a military agreement to rebuild confidence with North Korea.
South Korea has said that it intended to restore an agreement suspending military activity along its border with North Korea and relive intercreen cooperation, while President Lee Jae-Myung is trying to mitigate the pying tensions on the Pyongyang nuclear program and deepen links with Russia.
Friday, the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Korea of the Japanese colonial rule, Lee said that he would seek to restore the so-called military agreement of September 19 and to rebuild confidence with North Korea.
“To avoid accidental clashes between the South and North Korea and to establish military confidence, we will take proactive and progressive measures to restore the military agreement (2018) on September 19,” said Lee in a television speech.
Lee added that his government “will not pursue any form of unification by absorption and does not intend to engage in hostile acts” against his neighbor in the North.
The September 19 agreement was signed at an inter -corrense summit in 2018, where the leaders of the two countries declared the start of a new era of peace.
But Seoul partially suspended the agreement at the end of 2023 after he opposed the launch of a military spy satellite in space, Pyongyang then effectively reinforcing the agreement while it deployed heavy weapons in the demilitarized zone between the two countries and the restored guard posts.
The tensions were then elected between the two Koreas under Yoon Suk-Yeol, the former Conservative President of South Korea who was elected in 2022 but who was removed from his duties in April and now purges a prison sentence for his brief taxation of martial law in December.
South Korea and North Korea – separated along the highly militarized buffer zone known as 38th parallel – are still at war after the war after their war of 1950-1953 ended with an armistice, not with a peace treaty.
Clearly taken from his desire to resume dialogue with Pyongyang since he won an early election in June, the new leftist president in South Korea, Lee took a softer tone and sought a rapprochement with North Korea.
Shortly after its inauguration and in the first step concretely of its government towards the softening of tensions, Lee interrupted the propaganda messages of the South and K-Pop songs through the border in the North.
Earlier this month, South Korea began to remove its speakers on its side of the border, while the joint chiefs of Seoul said that he had proof that Pyongyang was doing the same.
But, Thursday, Kim Yo Jong – The powerful sister of the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong one – attenuated any suggestion to warm the links between Korea.
Kim, who oversees the propaganda operations of the Korean workers’ party, who has reigned over the country since 1948, accused Seoul of having cheated on the public and of “building public opinion while embellishing its new policy” towards Pyongyang.
“We have never deleted the speakers installed in the border area and are not willing to remove them,” said Kim.
