According to Yonhap News Agency on the 23rd, South Korea's Minister of Unification Jeong Dong-young said on the same day that Lee Jae-myung's administration is advancing a peace-led policy towards North Korea. In a meeting with reporters on the same day, Jung Dong-young said, “Lee Jae-ming's government has in fact abandoned the 'priority denuclearization' and 'complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization' that the previous administration insisted on, and instead adopted the 'peace priority' line.” Jung Dong-young said that the “denuclearization priority” line emphasized by the previous administration was largely due to domestic political needs, and the most important thing now is to resume the interrupted dialogue with North Korea. If “denuclearization first” is used as a prerequisite for dialogue, the two sides will not be able to start a dialogue. It is on the basis of this understanding that the current government decided to abandon the “denuclearization first” route and switch to the “peace first” line. Jung Dong-young also said that the Ministry of Unification is exploring a more realistic solution, that is, as long as North Korea first stops expanding its nuclear capabilities before it achieves complete denuclearization, it will provide it with corresponding rewards. To this end, the Ministry of Unification proposed that discussions on the Korean Peninsula peace mechanism should be initiated as a matter of priority in order to create conditions for North Korea to cease its nuclear activities.

According to Yonhap News Agency on the 23rd, South Korea's Minister of Unification Jeong Dong-young said on the same day that Lee Jae-myung's administration is advancing a peace-led policy towards North Korea. In a meeting with reporters on the same day, Jung Dong-young said, “Lee Jae-ming's government has in fact abandoned the 'priority denuclearization' and 'complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization' that the previous administration insisted on, and instead adopted the 'peace priority' line.” Jung Dong-young said that the “denuclearization priority” line emphasized by the previous administration was largely due to domestic political needs, and the most important thing now is to resume the interrupted dialogue with North Korea. If “denuclearization first” is used as a prerequisite for dialogue, the two sides will not be able to start a dialogue. It is on the basis of this understanding that the current government decided to abandon the “denuclearization first” route and switch to the “peace first” line. Jung Dong-young also said that the Ministry of Unification is exploring a more realistic solution, that is, as long as North Korea first stops expanding its nuclear capabilities before it achieves complete denuclearization, it will provide it with corresponding rewards. To this end, the Ministry of Unification proposed that discussions on the Korean Peninsula peace mechanism should be initiated as a matter of priority in order to create conditions for North Korea to cease its nuclear activities.