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November 19, 2024
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North Korea thanks ASEAN for supporting dialogue to achieve peace on peninsula

Remarks come after U.S. side reiterates support for the full denuclearization of Korean peninsula

A North Korean official thanked a regional, intergovernmental organization on Monday for its support of dialogue and negotiations to achieve peace on the peninsula, a statement on the DPRK's Ministry of Foreign Affairs website showed.

The message, addressed to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), comes a month after Pyongyang ordered the demolition of the inter-Korean liaison office in Kaesong, which was opened in 2018 to improve relations with Seoul.

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