SOUTH Korea's president has proposed an international park on the tense border with North Korea as part of a region-wide peace initiative to put an end to constant cycles of crisis.
In an address to a joint meeting of the US Congress, President Park Geun-Hye warned that the Demilitarised Zone dividing the neighbours was in fact "the most militarised place on the planet" and a risk to the world.
"The Demilitarised Zone must live up to its name, a zone that strengthens the peace, not undermines it," Park said.
"It is with this vision in mind that I hope to work toward an international park inside the DMZ. It will be a park that sends a message of peace to all of humanity," she said.
The proposal, while vague in detail, marks a shift in tone from the newly elected conservative leader who vowed a day earlier with President Barack Obama to take a hard line after months of soaring tensions with North Korea.
The most visible symbol of cooperation between North and South Korea -- the Kaesong industrial park inside the impoverished communist side -- has been suspended amid the democratic South's fears for its citizens' safety.
Park also called for a broader initiative in northeast Asia, where friction involving regional heavyweights China and Japan have also been on the rise.
The South Korean leader called for regional nations to step up cooperation on issue such as environmental issues and disaster relief. She said the United States should take part -- and that North Korea could eventually join.
"We cannot afford to put off a multilateral dialogue process in northeast Asia. Together, the United States and other northeast Asian partners could start with softer issues," she said.
"Of course, North Korea could also be invited to join. If we start where our interests overlap, then later it will be easier to find common ground on the larger challenges," she said.
Park described the proposal as part of her idea of "trustpolitik" -- stabilising relations between the two Koreas -- that she laid out before her election as a way to find a new path to the six-decade-old conflict.
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