North and South Korea ask U.N. to circulate peace declaration
2018-09-09 09:50:55 source:Asahi Shimbun
September 8, 2018
UNITED NATIONS -- North Korea and South Korea asked the United Nations on Friday to circulate a peace declaration their leaders agreed to in April that vows to remove nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula and work toward a formal end to the Korean War.
North Korea's U.N. Mission said ambassadors of the two countries sent a letter to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak requesting that they circulate the "Panmunjom Declaration on Peace, Prosperity and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula" as an official U.N. document.
U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said the letter had been received and was being processed.
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