The unification ministry on Wednesday raised the need to stop calling North Korea its "main enemy" as part of steps to seek peaceful coexistence with Pyongyang in an effort to revive long-frozen inter-Korean relations. The ministry briefed President Lee Jae Myung on its major policy plan that centers on building mutual respect and reciprocal cooperation, peaceful conflict resolution and crisis management and a long-term push toward a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula and peace in Northeast Asia. As part of that effort, the ministry proposed to stop calling North Korea the "main enemy" when referring to the North and using the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, to build mutual trust. South Korea currently uses "North Korea" rather than its official name, as Seoul does not recognize the two Koreas as separate states under the 1991 inter-Korean Basic Agreement. The initiative effectively revives a peace regime framework floated under former President Moon Jae-in that lost momentum after inter-Korean exchanges came to a standstill. On security, the ministry wants to