ALBAWABA - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol suggested on Thursday a "Inter-Korean Working Group" to alleviate rising tensions with Pyongyang and explore opportunities for economic collaboration.
Relations between the two Koreas are at their lowest point in years, with the North recently announcing the deployment of 250 ballistic missile launchers along its southern border.
Since May, North Korea has launched hundreds of trash-filled balloons toward South Korean territories, leading Seoul to begin propaganda broadcasts along the border and terminate a 2018 agreement intended at easing tensions between the two forces.
Yoon declared his "unification vision" on Thursday at a ceremony commemorating the country's liberation from Japanese domination, saying, "As long as the state of division persists, our liberation will remain incomplete".
"The freedom we enjoy must be extended to the frozen kingdom of the North, where people are deprived of freedom and suffer from poverty and starvation," Yoon said, calling for the establishment of a new Inter-Korean Working Group.
Yoon added that the group would work toward relieving the tension between the Koreans, boosting economic cooperation, and facilitating cultural exchange between the two nations.
