Some South Korean non-governmental organizations received an invitation from Pyongyang to celebrate together the thirteenth anniversary of the North-South Joint Declaration ratification. The official Seoul politely rejected the proposal by dropping a hint that it was a bad idea to provoke the discord within the country. This refusal is based on the fact that the invited organizations do not have corresponding authorities to deal with national issues. “If the North really seeks better cross-border relations it should talk directly with Seoul to build trust instead of obsessing about the joint event with private groups,” the South Korean ministry's spokesman Kim Hyung-suk noted.
The correspondence went on. As the next step, North Korea decided to replace the peace treaty signed right after the war in 1953 with the new one. "There is a pressing need to replace the Armistice Agreement, which is a relic of the war, with a permanent peace regime. If the peace regime was created in the past, the current standoff over denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula would not have become a problem in the first place,” Rodong Sinmun, an official newspaper of the Workers' Party of Korea, said. Despite this, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea actions seem equivocal. On the one hand, the country is seeking peace. However, on the other hand, it has pronounced that renunciation of nuclear disarmament is impossible under the conditions of constant threats from the U.S.A.
