Making the Korean Peninsula a lasting peace zone

Making the Korean Peninsula a lasting peace zone Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK put forward ways and means to make the Korean Peninsula a durable and lasting peace zone in his New Year Address for 2019.  Removing the danger of war, easing the tension and creating the climate for peace in the Korean Peninsula are essential demand for promoting the improvement of inter-Korean relations. Last year the DPRK government made every possible effort to defuse the acute military tension and remove the danger of war on the Korean Peninsula.   The Panmunjeom Declaration, the September Pyongyang Joint Declaration andthe north-south agreement in the military field mark a significant occasion. The north and the south of Korea should stop the act of inciting military tension and fully implement the Panmunjeom Declaration, the September Pyongyang Joint Declaration and the north-south agreement in the military field. The north and the south of Korea, as they agreed, should take practical measures proactively to remove military hostility on the whole of the Korean Peninsula, including the ground, airspace and sea, as a follow-up to its ending in the areas of confrontation. Given that north and south committed themselves to advancing along the road of peace and prosperity, the joint military exercises with foreign forces, which constitute the source of aggravating the situation on the Korean peninsula, should no longer be permitted and the introduction of war equipment including strategic assets from outside should completely be suspended. It is also needed to actively promote multi-party negotiations for replacing the current ceasefire on the Korean Peninsula with a peace mechanism in close contact with the signatories to the armistice agreement so as to lay a lasting and substantial peace-keeping foundation. To make the peninsula a durable and lasting peace zone is not a goal for the authorities of the north and the south only. The Korean nation should unite as one, being conscious that the master of peace on the peninsula is our nation, in order to wage a powerful struggle to check and frustrate all the moves that wreck peace and incite military tension on the peninsula. The peace-loving world people should conduct various kind of campaign for peace against war in demand of durable peace in the Korean Peninsula.