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Building of Peace Mechanism on Korean Peninsula Called for

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, January 26 (KCNA) -- A prerequisite to defusing tension and removing the danger of war on the Korean Peninsula is to replace the armistice agreement with a peace accord, says Rodong Sinmun Saturday in a signed article.
    To build a new peace mechanism on the peninsula is prerequisite to easing tension and removing the danger of war on the peninsula because there is no justification for the present armistice agreement to exist any longer, the article notes, and goes on:
    To ease the military tension and ensure peace on the peninsula is an urgent issue which brooks no further delay in view of the trend of the times and the requirement of the prevailing situation.
    The Korean Peninsula is the only region in the world which has been in the state of truce and technically at war for more than five decades.
    It is urgent to replace the armistice agreement with a peace accord because the armistice agreement exists in name only due to the U.S.
    It would be no more than an armchair argument to talk about the observance of the armistice agreement that has been reduced to a dead document due to the U.S. perfidious act.
    The replacement of the armistice agreement by a peace accord would help defuse the military confrontation on the peninsula and smoothly solve the issue of building confidence between the DPRK and the U.S.
    There will be neither reason nor condition for the U.S. to refuse to opt for concluding a peace accord to replace the armistice agreement if it is truly willing to build confidence with the DPRK and co-exist with it in peace and stands for peace on the peninsula.
    The earlier conclusion of the peace accord would help convert the acute belligerent relations between the DPRK and the U.S. to those of peace and confidence and ensure lasting peace and stability on the peninsula.
    The U.S. should face up to the trend of history and the development of the situation and take a bold decision to replace the armistice agreement with a peace accord as early as possible.