South Korea’s president has urged the Unification Ministry to change its approach toward North Korea and stop functioning like a “support department” for Pyongyang amid the rising tensions between the two countries.
President Yoon Suk-yeol observed that the ministry had focused on supporting North Korea and called for a shift in its approach, Yonhap News Agency reported.
“From now on, the Unification Ministry must carry out its proper responsibilities in accordance with the constitutional principles that unification must be based on liberal democratic order,” Yoon said at a meeting on Sunday.
“The unification that we pursue must be one in which all the people from the South and the North enjoy better lives and are treated better as human beings,” he added….