Commentary: Cherishing peace best way to commemorate Korean War truce

BEIJING, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Living in an era with prevailing peaceful trend, people often take commemorations of war and truce as an opportunity to reflect on the lessons of the conflict and cherish the hard-won peace.

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary for the Korea War armistice, Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao travels to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Thursday at Pyongyang's invitation.

It has been six decades since the a truce was finally reached to end one of the most costly conflicts after the Second World War.

Sixty years on, the landscape of the Northeast Asia and the world at large has undergone profound change.

China and the DPRK still enjoys strong traditional ties.

Meanwhile, the relationship between some of the warring parties of that conflict has evolved dramatically, with China and the United States now aspiring to build a new paradigm of ties between major countries of the world, and Beijing and Seoul already becoming major trading partners to each other.

If the conflict of the past could serve as the lesson for the future, one of the most important revelations of the Korean War would be always cherishing peace with a forward-looking attitude.

Since the peace is hard-won, cherishing tranquility and safeguarding stability of the peninsula and the region at large would be the best way to commemorate the war.

However, it should be noticed that "armistice" is no substitute for lasting peace on the peninsula, which is still unfinished business but a still attainable goal.

One thing is clear: if the Korean Peninsula issue cannot be solved by military means 60 years ago, it is still the case for today.

As a curcial player in the region and a signatory of the Korean War Armistice Agreement, over the years China has been playing an active role in facilitating dialogue and promoting peace on the peninsula.

As peace and development has already become the prevailing theme of our time, no one is willing to see a replay of what happened on the peninsula six decades ago.

Therefore, the time for commemorating the truce should become a new opportunity for related parties to work together and create conditions for resuming dialogue toward the goal of denuclearization and building enduring peace on the Korean Peninsula.

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