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Unification Minister Chung Dong-young has proposed starting a four-way negotiation framework involving the two Koreas, the U.S. and China on shifting the Korean Peninsula from an armistice to a peace regime.
Chung made the proposal on Thursday when he gave a special speech at the eleventh conference of the Ulaanbaatar Dialogue on Northeast Asian Security held in the Mongolian capital city.
The minister said efforts will be made to expand the envisioned negotiation framework to include other Northeast Asian countries, including Mongolia, Japan and Russia.
Chung said a new order of peace will be established in Northeast Asia if headway is made in restoring trust between the two Koreas, establishing a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula and holding multilateral dialogue in Northeast Asia.
In his speech, delivered in English, Chung referred to North Korea as the DPRK, which stands for the North’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.