North Korea rejects South Korea’s call for end-of-war declaration

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in addresses the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly (Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP, File)

North Korea has rebuffed South Korea’s push for a political declaration to end the 1950-53 Korean War as a way to restore peace, saying such a step could be used as a “smokescreen covering up the US hostile policy” against the North.

In a speech at the UN General Assembly earlier this week, South Korean President Moon Jae-in reiterated his calls for the end-of-the-war declaration that he said could help achieve denuclearisation and lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula.