The United States and North Korea may agree at the upcoming high-level summit in Vietnam on declaring the end of the Korean War, Kim Eui-kyeom, a spokesman for South Korea's president, told reporters on Monday
TOKYO (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 25th February, 2019) The United States and North Korea may agree at the upcoming high-level summit in Vietnam on declaring the end of the Korean War, Kim Eui-kyeom, a spokesman for South Korea's president, told reporters on Monday.
"I think that there are opportunities for that. We cannot know the form of this declaration, but I believe that the United States and North Korea will be able to reach an agreement on the declaration of the end of the war to some extent," Kim said.
The 1950-1953 war between North Korea, supported by China and the Soviet Union, and South Korea, supported by the UN forces that predominantly consisted of the US military, ended with an armistice agreement � a peace treaty was never signed. This means that North Korea and the United States are still technically at war.
Seoul previously insisted that the United States and both Koreas must be part of any agreement that ends the war. However, the presidential spokesman suggested that the announcement of the end of the war between North and South Korea was actually made last fall when the military of both countries signed an agreement in which the sides rejected any hostility toward one another.
"Thus, there are only two countries [left to declare the end of the war] � the United States and North Korea. If they declare the end of the war, this will be achieved in a practical sense," Kim added.
US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are scheduled to meet in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi on February 27-28 for their second summit on denuclearization.
After the first summit, held last year in Singapore, the US president said North Korea no longer posed a nuclear threat to the United States.
The first US-North Korean summit resulted in an agreement stipulating that Pyongyang would make efforts to promote the complete denuclearization of the peninsula in exchange for the United States and South Korea freezing their military drills.
