But the DP leader also called on North Korea to return to the six-party talks and give up its nuclear program in return for food shipments from the South. "North Korea should immediately abandon its nuclear weapons program. The Lee Myung-bak government should also overhaul its North Korea policy and resume fertilizer and rice assistance, as his liberal predecessors did ... Rice shipment to the North is particularly needed to cope with falling rice prices at home." The Lee government has linked the resumption of full-scale food aid to North Korea to its denuclearization, although it last week offered to give the North limited volumes of corn and other humanitarian aid. Full Article at Rantburg