President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un at second summit in Vietnam
Responding to the third meeting between President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un at Panmunjom on 30 June 2019, the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK) has issued a statement welcoming the event describing it as ‘a gateway through which we must pass toward permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula.’
The third summit ‘can be seen as the fruit of the sincere commitment of the three leaders to reconstruct the Division/Korean War system, the Panmunjom system, into a Korean Peninsula system of peace and co-existence’, says the statement.
The NCCK suggests a number of steps that are necessary to establish a Korean Peninsula Peace and Co-existence system, including ‘that South Korea and the four major powers surrounding the Korean Peninsula first respect the North’s universal rights so that the North can develop peacefully through the stability of its regime’ and that ‘the parties to the Korean War should immediately declare an end to the war’.
‘We believe that the process of establishing a peace and co existence system on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia is the way to achieve denuclearization’ says the NCCK statement.
You can download the full NCCK statement on the meeting between President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un at Panmunjom (PDF).
