The unification ministry said Friday it will pursue a "peace declaration" designed to express the political will to end the 1950-53 Korean War in a bid to seek the transition of the current armistice into a peace regime. The ministry unveiled the plan in a report to the National Assembly as President Lee Jae Myung vowed all-out efforts to turn the armistice into a peace regime to ease inter-Korean tensions during his speech marking the 107th anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement. "The government will seek the 'peace declaration' that reflects the political will to end the Korean War and kick off discussions for the establishment of a peace regime, including the signing of a peace treaty," the ministry said in the report to the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs and unification. The two Koreas are technically at war as the Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. The ministry said the peace declaration is a multilateral political declaration that will involve South Korea and the signatories to the Armistice Agreement — the United States, North Korea and