Urgent: S. Korea has effectively abandoned "denuclearization-first" policy toward DPRK: minister-Xinhua

Urgent: S. Korea has effectively abandoned "denuclearization-first" policy toward DPRK: minister

Source: Xinhua

Editor: huaxia

2026-07-23 16:53:00

SEOUL, July 23 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said Thursday that the Lee Jae Myung government has effectively scrapped the previous administration's "denuclearization-first" policy, including its pursuit of the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and shifted to a "peace-first" approach focused on freezing DPRK's nuclear program.