Seoul – South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday in Seoul vowed a continuous efforts at the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)’s complete denuclearisation for sustainable peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Moon said this in his congratulatory speech, read by his Senior Secretary for Political Affairs to celebrate the third annual symposium on the Korean Peninsula reunification.

The South Korean leader, who took office on May 10, is presently in Washington for his three-day stay to hold his first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.

The peaceful reunification with the DPRK, Moon said, was not a matter of choice but an uncompromisable principle to the two Koreas for the purpose of securing sustainable growth and the future generation’s peace.

“Under the principle of peaceful reunification, South Korea should take the lead in the Korean Peninsula issues,’’ Moon said.

He stressed the need for a firm South Korea-U.S. alliance, a strong security and a thorough management of security crisis to prevent any DPRK military provocations.

Moon vowed his government’s continued efforts to completely denuclearise the DPRK, based on close cooperation with the international community and a strategic approach to the DPRK’s nuclear issue.

He promised to set foundations for complete and sustainable peace on the peninsula, adding that peace on the peninsula would open a new prospect for peace in Northeast Asia and prosperity in the world.

Moon told the media that dialogue for the DPRK’s dismantlement of its nuclear programme could be inaugurated when Pyongyang stops further nuclear and missile provocations and promises the freezing of its nuclear programme.

Meanwhile, experts called for the Moon government to make efforts to encourage the DPRK to come back to the dialogue table.

The six-party talks aimed at dismantling the DPRK’s nuclear programme, which involves South Korea, the DPRK, China, the United States, Russia and Japan, had been suspended since late 2008.

At one of the symposium, Prof. Choi Jong-kun, Moon’s campaign adviser on Foreign Policy, said it would be important to bring the DPRK to the dialogue table through South Korea’s sufficient policies on Pyongyang.

He said that the Moon government supported a balanced policy direction of engagement with and sanctions on the DPRK.

Kim Nam-joong, Deputy Minister for Unification Policy at South Korea’s Unification Ministry said that the government would push to lead the DPRK to the dialogue table through pressure and negotiations in cooperation with relevant countries.

She said that the government would also deal with any DPRK provocation.

Kim said that the Moon government would push for a new DPRK policy with the aim of “Peaceful Korean Peninsula’’.

He said the tensions on the peninsula and strained inter-Korean relations were prolonged in spite of strong response to the DPRK’s nuclear and missile provocations.