Kim calls for easing tensions with South in rare broadcast

 

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has called for an easing of tensions with the South and flagged a radical turnabout in the national economy in a rare voiced message broadcast on state television.
Kim yesterday said in a New Year’s message that an important issue in putting an end to the division of the country and achieving its reunification is to remove confrontation between the North and the South. He said the past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.
The message came just weeks after the election of the conservative Park Geun-Hye as South Korea’s new president and coincided with UN Security Council discussions on how to punish North Korea for its recent long-range rocket launch.