South Korea's nuclear plea to North
Updated on 15 August 2008
South Korea's president urged North Korea to abandon its nuclear programmes and resume stalled inter-Korean dialogue, saying he wants to enrich the communist country through economic co-operation.
"I am not going to give up the dream of both Koreas living well together," President Lee Myung-bak said in a speech marking the 63rd anniversary of the Korean peninsula's liberation from Japanese colonial rule. "Permanent peace must be brought about," he added.
But to realise that vision, the North's nuclear weapons programme, "which is the source of distrust and conflict, has to be eliminated completely," he added.
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