Standing alongside Moon at the foot of Peace House, Kim addressed the international media on Friday, declaring that the two Koreas are one united people who should work together toward reunification.
"We are not a people that should be confronting each other ... we should be living in unity," Kim said. "We have long waited for this moment to happen. All of us."
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North and South Korea will sign a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War this year:
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North and South Korea will sign a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War later this year, 65 years after hostilities ceased, the two countries announced in a joint declaration Friday.
The document, formally called the “Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification on the Korean Peninsula,was revealed after a full day of meetings and a 30-minute private conversation in the past hour between Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in.
“The two leaders solemnly declare ... that there will be no more war on the Korean Peninsula and a new era of peace has begun,” the declaration said.
Fighting in the Korean War ended in 1953 in stalemate, after which an armistice agreement was signed. But a peace treaty never followed, and the two sides are still technically at war.
“There will not be any more war on the Korean Peninsula, a new era of peace has begun," Moon said after signing the declaration.
“Chairman Kim Jong Un and I have agreed that complete denuclearization will be achieved, and that is our common goal.”
Here's the full English text of the "Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula": pic.twitter.com/8sMijU1MYR
— James Griffiths
