South Korean President Park Geun-hye issued a joint statement with four East European countries on achieving diplomatic support on the North Korean issue.

The regional block of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – called Visegrad – has shared in the experience of a political transition from communism to capitalism, and criticized North Korea’s nuclear program while urging dialogue.

“The participants urged North Korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons in a complete, verifiable and irreversible way, and return to the Nonproliferation Treaty and International Atomic Energy Agency, as well as enroll in the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty,” the 22nd