Vice chair of unification council raises need to call N. Korea by its official name

The vice chair of the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council on Thursday raised the need for South and North Korea to call each other by their official names in a bid to help bring peace to the Korean Peninsula.

Kang Chang-il, vice chair of the PUAC, a presidential advisory body on unification, made the call, after senior leaders of South Korea's seven major religious orders urged the two Koreas to mutually use their official names.

South Korea currently refers to the North as "North Korea" rathe ...