This article was contributed to NK News by the DPRK’s Institute for Disarmament and Peace, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. While it has been edited for content and to conform with most aspects of NK News style, the North Korean state media custom of lower-casing the first letters in “north” and “south” Korea – reflecting the view that they are legitimately one nation – has been maintained.

Since World War II, the power architecture of Northeast Asia has been compressed on the Korean Peninsula, where both the north and the south aspire for reunification. Under these circumstances, all of the neighboring countries,