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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Maroosha Muzaffar

South Korea abandons hardline stance on North’s nuclear weapons programme

South Korea is giving up on its demand that North Korea fully abandon its nuclear weapons before any broader peace settlement, unification minister Chung Dong Young said on Thursday.

The two neighbours share deeply hostile relations and are technically still in a state of conflict, after the Korean War ended in 1953 with a ceasefire deal rather than a peace treaty.

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