South Korea's foreign ministry said Thursday that the country will make efforts to declare an end to the 1950-53 Korean War in 2018 as stipulated in the Panmunjom Declaration.

Foreign ministry spokesman, Noh Kyu-duk, told a press briefing that Seoul will make efforts to make the war-ending declaration this year as specified in the Panmunjom Declaration and build a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.

The Panmunjom Declaration was signed by South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) after their first summit in April at the border village of Panmunjom.

The schedule and format for the war-ending declaration would be decided upon after consultations among the two Koreas and the countries concerned, the spokesman said.

The peninsula remains in a technical state of war as the three-year Korean War ended with armistice.