South Korean President Moon Jae-in vowed on Monday to continue working toward inter-Korean peace until the end of his term this spring, stressing his administration’s achievements in his final New Year’s speech as leader.

While Moon met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un multiple times between 2018 and 2019 and co-signed two milestone agreements, inter-Korean relations have been deadlocked since the failure of the U.S.-DPRK summit in Hanoi in Feb. 2019. 

“We must not forget the fact that the current peace was created with difficulty … through the inter-Korean and U.S.-DPRK talks in which [the ROK] took a lead,” Moon