SKorea seeks NKorea disarmament progress next year
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea’s president said Wednesday that urgent progress must be made next year in dismantling North Korea’s atomic weapons program ahead of a key anniversary that could spur Pyongyang to bolster its nuclear capabilities. President Lee Myung-bak said diplomats must quickly persuade the North to abandon its nuclear aspirations because Pyongyang is pushing to create a “powerful, prosperous nation” by 2012. The year is the 100th since the birth of Kim Il Sung, the revered guerrilla fighter-turned-political leader who founded the communist state in 1948 and the father of current leader Kim Jong Il. That push could involve more aggressive behavior, and a South Korean…
Read more here:
SKorea seeks NKorea disarmament progress next year
Posted by
on December 29, 2010. Filed under
News.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the
RSS 2.0.
You can leave a response or trackback to this entry