SpaceWar.com reports: “South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday outlined a vision for unification with North Korea and offered to open a working group for dialogue, even as tensions with Pyongyang remain precariously high.
Yoon laid out his plan in an address marking South Korea’s Liberation Day, which celebrates the 1945 end of Japan’s colonial rule, saying that ‘complete liberation remains an unfinished task for us.’
‘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. ‘Only when a unified free and democratic nation rightfully owned by the people is established across the entire Korean Peninsula will we finally have complete liberation.’
Yoon’s blueprint for unification includes sparking change within North Korea through human rights improvements and access to information from the outside world.
‘It is also important to help awaken the people of North Korea to the value of freedom,’ Yoon said. ‘Testimonials from numerous North Korean defectors show that our radio and TV broadcasts helped make them aware of the false propaganda and instigations emanating from the North Korean regime.’
The South Korean president called for building international support for unification among allies and proposed establishing an ‘Inter-Korean Working Group’ for dialogue with the North…”
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