MOSCOW. July 7 (Interfax) - North Korea deems it necessary to abandon the hostile attitude and to alleviate tensions on the Korean Peninsula, says a statement posted by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Monday.
The statement urged Seoul not to hold new military exercises with the United States and stressed the sides "should end reckless hostility and confrontation and open up the road for reconciliation and unity."
Pyongyang offered Seoul to work on reunification ways together.
"The north and the south should reject dependence on outsiders and settle all issues by the efforts of Koreans," the statement said.
"They should solve all issues by their own efforts in the common interests of the nation from the stand of putting the nation above all, attaching importance to the nation and achieving national unity," it noted.
"The north and the south should seek reasonable reunification proposals supported by all Koreans and that guarantee the prosperity common to the nation.
"There is increasing demand and requirement of fellow countrymen to achieve reunification through federal formula in Korea where differing ideologies and social systems exist," Pyongyang underscored.
North Korea has recently been making a number of steps aimed at reconciliation with South Korea.
It was reported earlier that the North Korean government permitted opening the border with South Korea to participants in an international motor rally called Russia-Korea 2014, which will start in Moscow on Monday, July 7, the North Korean embassy to Russia told Interfax.
The rally will be the first in history of ethnic Koreans living in Russia to pass through lands their ancestors left 150 years ago and the first in history crossing of the border between North and South Korea by Russian descendants of united Korea's natives.