Following the meeting of the South Korean and North Korean leaders, Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un respectively, and the Panmunjeom Declaration that they signed, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini announced on Friday 27 April that "the European Union is ready to answer the call of the two leaders for the international community to lend its full support to the denuclearisation of the peninsula".
In the Panmunjeom Declaration, the two leaders underlined the common objective of achieving a non-nuclear Korean peninsula, through full denuclearisation.
"Full denuclearisation, as committed to by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), must include its nuclear and missile programmes and be complete, verifiable and irreversible", Mogherini stated in a press release that was added to the many international statements.
Mogherini said that the meeting and declaration show that "the way to peace is possible, against all the odds". "It shows that dialogue and diplomacy are our strongest tools to create peaceful solutions to the most difficult problems, and that they can benefit the region and the whole world", she added.
She also said she looked forward to the planned summit between Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump, and to "further positive outcomes that may stem from it". (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)