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Monday, January 11, 2021, 19:10
Moon: ROK ready to talk with DPRK anytime, anywhere
By Xinhua
Monday, January 11, 2021, 19:10 By Xinhua

ROK President Moon Jae-in delivers his New Year's address at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Jan 11, 2021. (YONHAP / AFP)

SEOUL - Republic of Korea (ROK) President Moon Jae-in said Monday that his government can hold a dialogue with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) anytime, anywhere and even in a contactless manner.

Moon said the mainstay of the Korean Peninsula peace process is dialogue, coexistence and cooperation, hoping to open a way for peace and coexistence in the process of addressing the COVID-19 pandemic

"Our willingness to meet (with DPRK) at any time and any place and to hold dialogue even in a contactless way has not been unchanged," Moon said in a nationally televised New Year's speech.

Moon said his government will make its last effort to achieve a great shift in dialogues between DPRK and the United States and between ROK and DPRK in accordance with the launch of the US Biden administration later this month.

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Moon said the mainstay of the Korean Peninsula peace process is dialogue, coexistence and cooperation, hoping to open a way for peace and coexistence in the process of addressing the COVID-19 pandemic.

He invited DPRK to join a regional dialogue for anti-epidemic, healthcare cooperation in Asia, saying inter-Korean cooperation to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak could expand into a cooperation in dealing with other safety issues such as infectious disease of domestic animals and natural disaster management.

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Moon was sworn in as ROK's president in May 2017, and less than one and a half years is left in his five-year term.

Denuclearization talks between Pyongyang and Washington have been stalled since the second DPRK-US summit ended without agreement at the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi in February 2019.

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