Korean War ‘Must End, Completely and for Good,’ Moon Tells UN
Moon Jae-in speaks virtually during the United Nations General Assembly.
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South Korea’s Moon Jae-in urged world leaders to bring the 70-year-old Korean War to a formal end, in his latest attempt to resuscitate stalled talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un.
The South Korean president argued in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that officially declaring an end to the 1950-53 conflict was the first step toward the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Although an armistice between the U.S.-led UN Command and China and North Korea ended open fighting, the agreement was never signed by South Korea and never replaced with a peace treaty.