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Seoul wants to substitute the unstable armistice that ended the fighting of the 1950-53 Korean War with a permanent peace treaty, a goal Pyongyang shares.

This step could get a boost on Friday, it will almost certainly be taken up then and probably again at the summit between Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump in May or early June.

South Korea wants to then develop trust and cooperation to the point where a sort of national consensus has been achieved.

After a transitional commonwealth period, the next step would be the formation of a single market on the Korean Peninsula "to create new growth engines and create an inter-Korean economic community of coexistence and co-prosperity".

"We will build a new economic order that will bring peace and prosperity to the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia," the ministry concludes.

The essentials of this plan were announced in September 1989 by South Korea's president at the time, Roh Tae-woo.

The succession of administrations that have taken office in the South since Mr Roh have adhered fairly predictably to the principle of gradual, peaceful progress, while calibrating their willingness to engage with Pyongyang based on their assessment of its level of vulnerability or hostility.

In the long run, however, it makes no provision for a one-state, two-system future.

Ultimately, Seoul believes, the North Korean system has to go.