End to the Korean War agreed to ‘in principle’

South and North Korea, China and the US have agreed "in principle" to declare a formal end to the Korean war, almost 70 years after the conflict ended in a shaky truce, the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, has said.

But Moon conceded that talks on the 1950-53 war were being held back by North Korean objections to present-day "US hostility".

Speaking in Canberra yesterday during his four-day visit to Australia, Moon said he believed the four main parties agreed in principle to a peace declaration.

But he added that North Korea had made an end to US hostility a precondition for talks, reports The Guardian. "And because of that, we are not able to sit down for a negotiation on the declarations between South and North Korea...," he said.