North Korea urges US to adopt 'serious attitude' for peace, end sanctions
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North Korea said on Monday its policy of seeking better ties with the South was enjoying broad international support, and called on the United States to halt its sanctions and pressure.
Ri Jong Hyok, director of North Korea's National Reunification Institute and deputy head of its Supreme People's Assembly, said that his country sought to build a "just and peaceful new world, free from aggression and war".
Nothing could block the goal of inter-Korean dialogue and reunification, he told the general assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva. North Korea's efforts to improve bilateral ties with South Korea now enjoyed a "broad spectrum of support" internationally, he said.
"Now is the high time to put an end to the US anachronistic anti-DPRK hostile policy and its futile moves of sanctions and pressure," Ri said, referring to his country's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
