US Admits Koreas Are Officially Still At War, Looks Into North’s Actions

Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – North and South Korea never signed a ceasefire and are technically still at war, agreed the U.S. officials on Monday.

U.S. State Department Spokesman P J Crowley said, “that’s a fact that technically, the two countries remain at a state of conflict,” in reply to a question at the daily press briefing, adding, “We obviously would like to see that resolved.”

The U.S., however wants North Korea to take initiative as Crowley said, “there are things that North Korea will have to do if it wants to have better relations with its neighbors and, in particular, South Korea.”

“We obviously would like to see North Korea cease its provocative action and construct better relations with its neighbors, take affirmative steps towards denuclearization of the peninsula,” Crowley told journalists, adding, “Those would be the kinds of things that we think would create the proper environment to resolve the armistice and establish peace and stability on the peninsula.”

Crowley outlined the present scenario in the region saying, “at this point, what we’re doing in light of the North Korean provocations, we’re continuing to work with South Korea to strengthen our defense cooperation.”

“Over the weekend decisions made by the presidents of the United States and South Korea regarding operational control of forces on the peninsula,” he highlighted the control of command decisions.

Earlier, to another question about North Korea being a supporter of international terrorism, Crowley said, “we obviously have plenty of concerns about activity of North Korea in terms of its well-established export of weapons and dangerous technology and know-how and we will continue to watch North Korea very carefully and will not hesitate to take action if we think that there are actions that North Korea has taken which do, in fact, demonstrate a consistent support for international terrorism.”

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