Anchor: The South Korean government has announced its North Korea policy for the coming five years. The plan aims to increase economic deals with North Korea if relations get better.
Our Kim In-kyung has more.
 
Report: The South Korean government plans to resume economic cooperation with North Korea and expand the inter-Korean special economic zone when relations with Pyongyang improve.

The unification ministry announced such policies on Thursday as part of its five-year road map for inter-Korean relations.
 
Under the master plan, the government will not pursue upgrading the current Korean War armistice to a permanent peace treaty, although that was a key agenda listed in 2007 by the Roh Moo-hyun administration. 
 
The government will instead try to remove Pyongyang's nuclear program in order to achieve sustainable peace on the Korean Peninsula. 
 
The unification ministry also proposed first achieving the smaller unification of integrating the two sides’ economies, and then moving on to a political merger in phases. 
 
Other top-ten tasks include promoting dialogue between Seoul and Pyongyang and making sure agreements reached in such cross-border talks are actually implemented.  
 
For the constructive normalization of the Gaeseong Industrial Complex, the government will review expanding the inter-Korea special economic zone considering the state of bilateral relations.
 
The ministry also maintained its plan to make the demilitarized zone into a peace park.
 
Some political analysts say the new road map suggests Seoul may be ready to ease the so-called "May 24th sanctions" once relations with Pyongyang improve. The sanctions ban all trade and investment with the North and were put in place on May 24, 2010, following the sinking of the South Korean naval corvette Cheonan that year.

The plan was to be reported to the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee on Thursday. But Democratic Party lawmakers on the committee refused to participate because the plan was not approved by the Cabinet. 
Kim In-kyung, KBS World Radio News.