This article was contributed to NK News by the DPRK’s Institute for Disarmament and Peace, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Several of the purported facts and opinions within are not those of NK News but are representative of North Korea.

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.  

In Northeast Asia, major nuclear powers are neighboring with each other around the divided Korean peninsula and their strategic interests are quite intertwined.

Peace-loving nations in the region aspire after a