As the past 30 years have shown, whenever peace talks were halted by the denuclearization hurdle, North Korea used that time to further advance its nuclear capabilities.
Remarks at the Korean Peninsula Symposium on North Korea's nuclear issue.
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A step-by-step process toward peaceful coexistence and denuclearization should proceed in three stages -- freeze, reduction and denuclearization.
As agreed in the 2018 Singapore summit between North Korea and the U.S., both sides should immediately resume talks to end mutual hostility and establish a new relationship.
We must move away from the old notion that a peace regime can only be discussed after the North Korean nuclear issue is resolved ... We need to pursue a phased and pragmatic solution. It is time for a paradigm shift.
We can begin with a four-party dialogue among the ROK, the DPRK, the U.S. and China.
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