North Korea Ready for Dialogue if US Signs Peace Settlement - FM

© REUTERS / Unification MinistrySouth Korean National Security Adviser Kim Kwan-jin (2nd L), South Korean Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo (L), Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Yang Gon (R), and Hwang Pyong-so (2nd R), the top military aide to the North's leader Kim Jong Un, talk during the inter-Korean high-level talks at the truce village of Panmunjom inside the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, in this picture provided by the Unification Ministry and released by Yonhap on August 25, 2015
South Korean National Security Adviser Kim Kwan-jin (2nd L), South Korean Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo (L), Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Yang Gon (R), and Hwang Pyong-so (2nd R), the top military aide to the North's leader Kim Jong Un, talk during the inter-Korean high-level talks at the truce village of Panmunjom inside the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, in this picture provided by the Unification Ministry and released by Yonhap on August 25, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Pyongyang is ready for "constructive dialogue" on peace and security provided that the United States agrees to sign a final peace treaty, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong told the UN General Assembly.

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – The Korean War of 1950-1953 ended with an armistice agreement, signed by the United States and North Korea. The agreement was meant to ensure a cessation of hostilities on the Korean peninsula until a final peace settlement was achieved. South and North Korea are still formally at war, as no final peace treaty was ever signed.

A crew member of the US navy aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan stands with his family at the US naval base in Yokosuka, Japan. - Sputnik International
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North Korea will be ready to hold talks, so as to prevent conflicts and armed confrontation on the Korean peninsula once the United States agrees to replace the armistice agreement with a final peaceful settlement, Ri Su Yong said on Thursday.

Tensions between the two Koreas escalated in late August when cross-border artillery fire erupted along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), prompting Pyongyang to declare what it described as a "semi-state of war." The two countries eventually defused tensions after a series of talks.

The United States has been supporting South Korea in its stand-off with the North. Joint US-South Korea exercises, condemned by Pyongyang, have been held annually since 2011.

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