North Korea's FM presses US for peace treaty
North Korea is offering what it calls "dramatic improvement" in the Korean peninsula's security situation if the United States acts to replace the armistice there with a peace treaty.
Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong's speech on Thursday to the U.N. General Assembly contained no surprises and very little of the icy rhetoric the nuclear-armed but isolated nation often uses in its statements to the world, according to Roanoke.com.
Ri told the gathering of world leaders that North Korea is willing to hold "constructive dialogue" to prevent further conflict with South Korea if the U.S. can come up with the signing of a peace treaty. He called the offer "the best option we can afford."
The two Koreas remain technically at war because the Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.