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Sun, September 24, 2023 | 14:57
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Park calls for inter-Korean trust building
朴대통령 "北주민 풍요로운 삶·평화통일은 軍 사명"
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By Shim Jae-yun

President Park Geun-hye called on North Korea, Wednesday, to join Seoul's endeavors toward the unification of the Korean Peninsula.

Toward that end, she emphasized the need for the two Koreas to closely work together to build up mutual trust, while discarding hitherto hostile policies against each other.

Park urged the reclusive nation to do away with its nuclear development program, describing it as "the biggest barrier" to making progress in inter-Korean relations.

"North Korea should give up its nuclear program in the near future and return to the international community as a responsible member," Park said in a speech during a ceremony to mark Armed Forces Day at the military headquarters in Daejeon, some 150 kilometers south of Seoul.

She said North Korea's nuclear program poses the greatest threat to security in Northeast Asia and thus should be addressed without fail.

She also renewed her call on the North to improve its human rights situation, recalling that she raised the issue during recent meetings at the United Nations.

"The human rights issue is the one about which the international community is most concerned and to which it pays keen attention," Park said.

Park's comments on the North Korean nuclear program came a day after representatives from the United States and South Korea met in Seoul to discuss how to deal with the issue.

Glyn Davies, the top U.S. nuclear envoy, came here Tuesday for talks with his South Korean counterpart over the envisioned resumption of the long-stalled six-party talks to terminate North Korea's nuclear program.

Davies already met with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing and criticized North Korea for having flatly rejected calls by neighboring countries to abide by its earlier pledges toward denuclearization.

The U.S. envoy flew to Japan for talks on the same issue.

North Korea, for its part, has been calling on the United States to discard its hostile policies toward the reclusive state. North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong said in an address to the U.N. General Assembly that the impasse over the country's nuclear weapons program will continue unless U.S. drops its antagonistic stance toward the North.

North Korea has maintained that it has no choice but to possess nuclear weapons as a deterrent against what it claims is the U.S. hostile policy toward it.

The U.S. has also accused the North of attempting to use American detainees there as leverage in negotiations.


朴대통령 "北주민 풍요로운 삶·평화통일은 軍 사명"

국군의날 기념식·경축연 참석 '북핵, 해결해야 할 시급한 과제'
'軍기강 인권보장 병영서 출발…병영문화혁신 끈질기게 추진해야'
'안보 흔들리면 남북대화·평화 바로설수 없어, 강력 억제력 유지'

박근혜 대통령은 1일 '북한 주민들의 삶을 풍요롭게 열어나가고, 한반도 평화통일의 기반을 구축하는 것은 이제 우리 군과 국민이 사명감을 갖고 해야 할 일'이라고 밝혔다.

박 대통령은 오전 계룡대 연병장에서 열린 건군 66주년 국군의날 기념식에 참석, 기념사를 통해 '얼마 전 유엔의 여러 회의에서 북한의 심각한 인권 문제를 알리고, 북한 주민의 삶을 개선하는 문제에 대해 논의했다. 오늘날 국제사회가 크게 우려하는 문제 중 하나가 바로 북한 인권문제'라며 이같이 말했다.

이어 '그러기 위해 우리 군은 대북억제와 대응능력은 물론, 한반도 안정과 세계평화에 이바지하는 군으로 더욱 크게 발전해 나가야 할 것'이라고 당부했다.

박 대통령은 북핵 문제에 대해 '한반도와 동북아 평화에 가장 큰 위협이며 반드시 해결해야 하는 시급한 과제'라고 말했다.

그러면서 '북한은 핵이 남북관계 발전의 가장 큰 걸림돌임을 직시하고, 하루속히 핵을 포기하고 국제사회의 책임 있는 일원이 돼야 한다'며 '북한은 남북 간 신뢰를 구축해 한반도의 평화와 통일을 만들어 가려는 우리의 노력에 동참해야 할 것'이라고 촉구했다.

또한 불안정한 한반도 및 동북아 정세와 관련, '군은 이러한 안보환경에 적극적으로 대응해서 북한의 도발뿐만 아니라, 다양한 비군사적·초국가적 위협 요인까지 철저히 차단하는 전방위 총력 안보태세를 확립해 나가야 한다'고 주문했다.

박 대통령은 병영문화 개선에 대해서는 '군인에게 기강은 생명과도 같은 것이다. 진정한 군의 기강은 전우의 인격을 존중하고 인권이 보장되는 병영을 만드는 데서 출발한다'며 '이제 우리 군은 과거의 잘못된 관행과 적폐를 바로잡아서 새로운 정예강군으로 거듭나야 한다'고 밝혔다.

이와 함께 '병영문화 혁신은 단순히 사건·사고를 예방하는 차원이 아니라 구성원의 의식과 제도, 시설 등 모든 요소를 완벽하게 변화시켜 하부구조를 튼튼하게 하고, 궁극적으로 충성심과 애국심으로 단결된 선진 정예강군을 육성하기 위한 것'이라며 ''민관군 병영문화 혁신위원회'를 중심으로 병영문화를 근본적으로 혁신해서 우리 사회의 인권 모범지대로 환골탈태하는 군이 돼 주기 바란다'고 당부했다.

박 대통령은 기념식 후 계룡대 벽천호수 광장에서 이어진 경축연에서도 '이만하면 됐다는 안이한 생각을 갖지 말고 강력하고 끈질기게 추진해주기 바란다'며 '최근 여러 안타까운 사건들을 전화위복의 계기로 삼아 투명하고 열린 병영문화로 탈바꿈하는데 성공한다면 국민들로부터 더욱 큰 사랑과 신뢰를 받을 수 있을 것'이라고 병영문화 혁신을 강조했다.

박 대통령은 아울러 안보에 대해 '국가 발전의 근간이며 국민안전과 국민행복의 가장 기본적인 토대이다. 안보가 흔들리면 남북간 대화도, 평화도 바로 설 수 없다'며 '확고한 안보태세와 공고한 한미동맹을 토대로 강력한 억제력을 유지해야 북한을 올바른 변화의 길로 이끌 수 있고 평화통일 기반도 구축할 수 있다'고 말했다. (연합뉴스)
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