Seoul, Aug. 15: The South Korean President, Mr Lee Myung-Bak, on Sunday urged North Korea to end its military provocations and make a “courageous change” as he laid out a long-term plan for reunification.
“It is about time Pyongyang looked straight at reality, made a courageous change and came up with a drastic decision,” Mr Lee said.
In his speech, Mr Lee detailed a multi-step blueprint for reunification, starting with a “peace community” after the peninsula is cleared of nuclear weapons. The next step is to dramatically develop the North’s economy and form an “economic community in which the two will work for economic integration,” he said.
Finally, the Koreas would be able “to remove the wall of different systems” and establish a community which will ensure “dignity, freedom and basic rights of all individuals,” he said.
“Through this process, we can bring about the peaceful unification of Korea,” he added.