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SEOUL, Sept. 27-- South Korean President Moon Jae-in and chiefs of four opposition parties on Wednesday agreed on bipartisan efforts to de-escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Moon held a meeting at the presidential Blue House with heads of the ruling Democratic Party, the centrist People's Party, the minor progressive Justice Party and the minor conservative Righteous Party to discuss security issues. Chief of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party refused to attend the rare meeting between party leaders and the president, according to the Blue House. After the meeting, a five-point joint statement was issued to reconfirm a basis principle of resolving the peninsula's nuclear issue peacefully while agreeing to make bipartisan efforts to ease the tensions on the peninsula. The statement urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to immediately stop provocation and come to the path of peace and denuclearization, condemning the DPRK's nuclear and missile provocations. It vowed to thoroughly implement the UN sanctions on Pyongyang and solidify the South Korea-U.S. alliance, while making efforts to strengthen deterrence capability against the DPRK's nuclear and missile threats. "A war will never be acceptable on the Korean Peninsula. (We) reconfirm a principle that security issues, including North Korea (DPRK)'s nuclear issue, should be resolved peacefully," said the statement. | 
