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UN chief pledges support to further talks between the Koreas

UN chief pledges support to further talks between the Koreas | iNFOnews.ca
CORRECTS DATE - In this Feb. 15, 2018 photo, a South Korean military vehicle with loudspeakers is seen in front of the barbed-wire fence in Paju, near the border with North Korea. South Korea on Monday, April 30, 2018, said it will remove propaganda-broadcasting loudspeakers from the tense border with North Korea. The announcement came three days after the leaders of the two Koreas agreed to work together to achieve a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula and end hostile acts against each other along their border during their rare summit talks. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

The U.N. says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has pledged the United Nations’ “full support” to further talks between North Korea and South Korea and “stands ready to discuss possible forms of support.”

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric says South Korean President Moon Jae-in asked during a Monday conversation with Guterres for U.N. support “to verify the imminent closure” of North Korea’s nuclear test site.

Dujarric said Tuesday that Moon also asked the secretary-general for U.N. support in implementing an agreement between North Korea and South Korea “to transform the demilitarized zone into a peace zone.”

He says the transformation is “provided for in the Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula,” signed by Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at their historic meeting Friday.

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