国际英语资讯:Roundup: S.Korean politicians agree on bipartisan efforts to ease Korean Peninsula tensions_时事

国际英语资讯:Roundup: S.Korean politicians agree on bipartisan efforts to ease Korean Peninsula tensions

It said partisan efforts in the National Assembly, which the government will also actively support, would be important to ease tensions on the peninsula.

The president and opposition party chiefs agreed to set up a standing committee to discuss state affairs, which will make it easier for them to meet more conveniently and frequently.

Tensions runs high on the peninsula as the DPRK conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3.

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a new resolution toughening sanctions on Pyongyang. In response, the DPRK tested an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) over Japan.

The war of rhetoric was resumed between Pyongyang and Washington as U.S. President Donald Trump said in his debut UN speech last week that his country would have no choice but to "totally destroy" the DPRK if it continues to threaten the United States and its allies.

Top DPRK leader Kim Jong Un issued a rare statement in response to the Trump's UN speech, warning Washington of the highest-level of hardline countermeasure in history.

U.S. strategic bombers and fighter escorts flew in international airspace over waters off the DPRK's east coast last weekend, and it caused a strong backlash from Pyongyang as the DPRK's Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho called it as a declaration of war.

According to spokespersons from the four political parties, President Moon would continue to make efforts at talks with the DPRK, saying at the meeting that South Korea would send a special envoy to Pyongyang if right conditions are created at the right time.