SEOUL: South Korea has abandoned its campaign prioritizing pressure on the North to dismantle its nuclear weapons, a minister said Thursday, marking a fresh overture by Seoul’s dovish government. President Lee Jae Myung has reversed the stance of his hawkish predecessor since taking power in Seoul in June 2025, offering nuclear-armed Pyongyang talks without preconditions. The hermetic leadership of North Korea have yet to respond to his repeated offers.

South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said the Lee Jae Myung government has effectively abandoned the previous administration’s denucl...

"The ultimate goal of denuclearisation has not been abandoned, but denuclearisation first has," Unification Minister Chung Dong-young was quoted as saying by his ministry at a…