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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 01: (L to R) Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak at the Presidential House on December 1, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 01: (L to R) Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak attend during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential House on December 1, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 01: (L to R) Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom shakes hands with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak at the Presidential House on December 1, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 01: Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom (L) talks with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak (R) at the Presidential House on December 1, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 01: (L to R) Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak attend during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential House on December 1, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: (L-R) Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade shakes hand with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak at the Presidential Blue House on November 23, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade attends a meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak at the Presidential House on November 23, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: (L-R) Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak walk before their meeting at the presidential blue house on November 23, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak attends a meeting with Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade at the Presidential House on November 23, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak attends a meeting with Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade at the Presidential House on November 23, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: (L-R) Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak walk before their meeting at the presidential blue house on November 23, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak attends a meeting with Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade at the Presidential House on November 23, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: (L-R) Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade shakes hand with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak at the Presidential Blue House on November 23, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: (L-R) Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak walk before their meeting at the presidential blue house on November 23, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak talk during a meeting at the presidential blue house on November 23, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 23: (L-R) Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak walk before their meeting at the presidential blue house on November 23, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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SINGAPORE - NOVEMBER 15: (L-R) Kristiani Yudhoyono, wife of Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Therese Rein, wife of Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, and Kim Yoon-ok, wife of South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak attend a tour on the Singapore Flyer observation wheel...
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SINGAPORE - NOVEMBER 15: Kim Yoon-ok, wife of South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak, attends a tour at the Singapore Flyer observation wheel following the APEC Summit on November 15, 2009 in Singapore.
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SINGAPORE - NOVEMBER 15: Kim Yoon-ok, wife of South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak, arrives at the Singapore Flyer observation wheel for a tour following the APEC Summit on November 15, 2009 in Singapore, Singapore.
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (C/L) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (C/R) as Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (2L) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) Hong Kong Representative Chief Donald Tsang, (4L) Taiwanese former vice president L...
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Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang (R) sits next to South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak as they attend the closing luncheon at The Presidential Palace in Singapore on November 15, 2009.
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - DECEMBER 01: (L to R) Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom and South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak attend during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential House on December 1, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
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Global warming is a crisis, while at the same time an opportunity that can create a gigantic market
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The long-term idea is that Seoul will ultimately drift more towards Beijing's orbit, although less so under President Lee Myung-bak.
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South Korea-Vietnam relations have seen remarkable improvements since the countries established diplomatic ties in 1992
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After taking his message as the ‘first Pacific president’ through four countries in eight days, President Obama wrapped up his tour of Asia on Thursday with talks with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and a planned visit to U.S. troops stationed in the shadow of nuclear-armed North Korea
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Korea and Japan have had difficulty in improving relations due to the past
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Certainly under Lee Myung-bak and Obama we are returning to normalcy.
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The two leaders agreed on (the need for) a fundamental, comprehensive solution to North Korea (the DPRK)'s nuclear program and promised to closely cooperate to completely resolve the problem
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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 a...
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Now is a good time for North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions, and there will be good results if we can offer a proposal for a one-step solution of the nuclear issue and conditions for such a deal
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It has been confirmed that since inauguration of President Lee Myung-bak, the freedom of press in South Korea has greatly declined
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Premier Wen said North Korea was willing to have talks with South Korea. I welcome this
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We've suddenly reached a charm phase with North Korea with Kim Jong-il inviting President Lee Myung-bak from the Republic of Korea to visit Pyongyang.
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We agreed on the need for a fundamental and comprehensive solution to North Korea's nuclear issues, not to repeat the negotiation tactics of the past. For this purpose, we agreed to work closely with other partners at the six-way talks over the package deal.
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It's true that we need a dialogue with North Korea
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In order for us to really accurately assess North Korea's true intent, that is the reason I proposed a grand bargain, whereby we will really have to deal with this in a one-shot deal and to try to bring about a fundamental resolution
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It is unthinkable for us to just grant a de facto nuclear status to North Korea
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The ultimate objective is to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program
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In the past, from experience, we know that negotiating with North Korea has always been a process whereby we make one step forward and we take two steps back, and we go back and forth and back and forth, without achieving much results
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Global warming is a crisis while at the same time an opportunity that can create a gigantic market as it takes a tremendous amount of investment to address it
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Now is the time to seek a grand bargain or package settlement. Through the six-party talks, North Korea would first dismantle the key elements of its nuclear program and then we would provide security guarantees and international assistance
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We must have a comprehensive and integrated approach to fundamentally resolve the North Korea nuclear issue
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With their historic responsibility in mind, the advanced economies must share these technologies so that new and emerging economies can join the efforts to tackle global climate change.
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We did not touch the fundamental issue, which is the complete dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear programme
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We must seek a packaged or 'grand bargain' resolution of North Korean nuclear issue, in which North Korea will dismantle key elements of its nuclear programs through the six-party talks while we will simultaneously provide security guarantees and international assistance to North Korea
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The reason North Korea is repeatedly insisting on direct talks is because it wants to be recognized as a nuclear state in order to proceed with arms reduction talks with the U.S.
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