The Moon Jae-in administration will ask South Korea’s National Assembly to ratify the 2018 agreement signed between President Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Seoul’s unification minister Lee In-young said on Thursday.
Moon appears willing to move ahead with the legislation, even after North Korea in June last year referred to the 2018 agreement as a “dead document” after blowing up the inter-Korean liaison office in Kaesong -- a building that came into being as a result of the Panmunjom Declaration.
The Moon Jae-in administration will ask South Korea’s National Assembly to ratify the 2018 agreement signed between President Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Seoul’s unification minister Lee In-young said on Thursday.
Moon appears willing to move ahead with the legislation, even after North Korea in June last year referred to the 2018 agreement as a “dead document” after blowing up the inter-Korean liaison office in Kaesong -- a building that came into being as a result of the Panmunjom Declaration.
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