A joint conference of the government, political parties and organizations of North Korea was held at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on Wednesday, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Thursday. KCNA-Yonhap



By Jung Da-min



North Korea wants inter-Korean unification under the separate regimes in the North and the South, the country's national appeal to Koreans home and abroad reveals.



The annual appeal was adopted at the joint conference of the government, political parties and public organizations at the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on Wednesday, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Thursday.



It proposed a "peaceful reunification based on a nationwide agreement," while saying the different ideologies and systems in the North and the South should both be allowed under a unified Korea.



"It is necessary to pool [our] wisdom and efforts to make a nationwide proposal for reunification in line with the will and demand of the nation on a basis of recognizing ideologies and systems existing in the North and the South and allowing them," the appeal carried by KCNA read.



It called for a comprehensive expansion of inter-Korean exchanges, condemning the "cunning moves of outsiders to create mistrust" between the Koreas, in an apparent reference to international sanctions.





Officials from government, political parties and public organizations discuss how to carry through the tasks for national reunification set out by the country's leader Kim Jong-un in his New Year address. KCNA-Yonhap