Issue The plan shifts North Korea policy toward reconciliation and cooperation to build sustainable peaceful coexistence

Summary

The plan argues that a North Korea policy focused on pressure and an ideological approach cannot overcome hostility between the two Koreas or advance denuclearisation and a peace regime. It proposes instead to combine a firm security posture, pragmatic diplomacy centred on the national interest and a shift to reconciliation and cooperation. The stated aim is to lay the foundation for sustainable peaceful coexistence and to realise what the plan calls a Korean Peninsula premium. Specific goals include starting a process to build a peace structure, resolving the North Korean nuclear issue and advancing a peace regime. The plan also seeks to restore inter-Korean reconciliation and a peace economy and to institutionalise peaceful coexistence, which remain contested policy choices rather than outcomes.