March 19, 2018. Excerpt from Opening Statement of the Party’s Supreme Council Meeting

   ■ Party Chairperson Mi-Ae Choo  

“Successful Completion of PyeongChang Olympics-Paralympics

The people is the main character”     Yesterday, the PyeongChang Olympics and the Paralympics, which had impressed the world for 38 days, ended its big run. Just two months ago, there was anxiety and restlessness that it was not ready in the country, and out of the country, there was a sense of insecurity about whether the Olympics would work properly due to the war crisis that a war could break out soon on the Korean peninsula. However, it dispelled it all at once and made a big reverse. The main character is the people of the Republic of Korea.  There is high praise from the press and sports people from all over the world in every aspect such as operation, safety, and performance of the game. It showed a drama of emotions that reversed a trend back to peace. For the first time in the history of the Paralympics, the North Korean athletes participated and led on the excitement of the peace olympics made at the PyeongChang Olympic Games. The Republic of Korea will have to make the waterway of peace in PyeongChang a huge water stream that cannot be crossed called "peace on the Korean peninsula."  The best achievement of the PyeongChang Olympics, which all Koreans have cooperated in this way, will be the inter-Korean summit and North Korea-U.S. summit. On March 16, President Trump dismissed the rumor of delaying North Korea-U.S. summit through a series of telephone conversations with President Moon Jae-In, U.S. President Trump and Prime Minister Abe, and Japanese Prime Minister Abe showed his forward-looking attitude to engage in dialogue with North Korea. The accomplishments made by President Moon Jae-in's authenticity and elaborate strategy are leading to support and participation of the United States, Japan, China and Russia. In addition, the news is being heard that North Korea and the United States made detour contacts through Sweden yesterday. In fact, with the nature of the talks ahead of the summit, not only the denuclearization, but also the solution to the sensitive resolutions surrounding North Korea have been highlighted. Moon Jae-In administration and Democratic Party will make all of its diplomatic and political efforts to open up a new era of peace on the Korean Peninsula, which has been pushed into the crisis of war just a few months ago.    

March 20th, 2018