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S.Korea to pursue active diplomacy for peaceful unification with DPRK: president

Xinhua, October 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Monday that the country will pursue active diplomacy for peaceful unification with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), repeating her message at the United Nations General Assembly.

Park told a meeting with her senior secretaries that the unification should be "led by us with our power," but she said that support and cooperation from the international society would be "very important".

"Going forward, (South Korea) will actively push ahead with peaceful unification diplomacy for peaceful unification on the Korean Peninsula," the president said.

Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York last Monday, Park said the international community should join in encouraging the DPRK to abandon its nuclear ambitions and improve human rights record.

As she emphasized during her UN address, Park told her secretaries, peaceful unification on the peninsula, which is the world's single remaining divided country, is another way for the peninsula to contribute to world peace.

Pyongyang has negatively responded to Park's so-called unification diplomacy. A day after Park's UN address, the DPRK's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) said that Park blatantly disclosed her ambition to achieve absorption unification by drawing in foreign influence. Endi