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S.Korea asks Bush to focus on N.Korea nuclear crisis SEOUL, Saturday (Reuters) South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun has telephoned newly re-elected U.S. President George W. Bush to propose that solving the nuclear crisis involving the isolated communist North be a priority for Bush's second term in office. Bush agreed on the need to push forward with stalled six-party talks on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons programmes, the presidential Blue House said in a statement. "President Roh proposed making the North's nuclear problem a joint project to solve with close cooperation and to lay the groundwork for peace on the Korean peninsula and in the world," it said. "The two leaders agreed to strengthen efforts to hold the six-way talks as soon as possible," it said. The two leaders will have an opportunity to discuss the crisis that erupted in late 2002 and threatens to destabilise North Asia when they meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Chile in November. China, the United States, North and South Korea, Japan and Russia agreed in June to try in September to hold a fourth round of six-way talks involving senior diplomats to try to end the North's nuclear programmes. However, the discussions never took place with Pyongyang appearing to stall while it waited to who won the U.S. presidential election. |
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