The world has greeted the New Year 2015 with the expectation that the situation in regions constantly beset with the danger of military conflicts, the danger of the potential use of weapons of mass destruction, in particular, would be eased fundamentally, the statement said, and went on:

One of those regions is the Korean peninsula where the homogeneous nation lives suffering the pain of division.

The situation on the Korean peninsula has recently been rendered very acute, making the tense situation in Northeast Asia all the more complicated.

The U.S. and south Korea are to blame for the tension on the Korean peninsula as they are perpetrating provocations threatening the DPRK.

If the north and the south of Korea are reunified in a peaceful way in the common interests of the nation, free from outsiders' interference, the regional tension will be defused.

Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of the DPRK, clarified in his New Year address that it is possible to resume the suspended high-level contacts as a practical measure to build confidence in the relations between the north and the south.

We support the peaceful proposals made by Kim Jong Un in his New Year address for defusing the tension on the Korean peninsula, and hope that the Korean people would achieve successes in the nationwide movement for the independent and peaceful reunification of the country in the New Year.