South Korean Envoy Voices Optimism Over Inter-Korean PeaceA senior South Korean diplomat said here Tuesday that he is very optimistic about the prospects for peace on the Korean Peninsula.Sun Joun-yang, the South Korean permanent representative to the United Nations, told a press conference here that "The road towards the peace on the Korean Peninsula may be sometimes bumping, but the peace process is moving forward." The Mission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the United Nations and the Mission of the Republic of Korea (ROK) to the United Nations began consultations on issues concerning the peace on the Korean Peninsula after the leaders of the two sides met in Pyongyang last June, he said. "There has been close consultations between the missions of South Korea and North Korea," he said. "The contacts between the two missions only took place after the summit," he said. DPRK leader Kim Jong Il and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung met on June 13 last year in Pyongyang, the first time in 55 years of the peninsula's division. |
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