Seoul, August 15: South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak Saturday called for talks with North Korea aimed at ridding the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons as well as making cuts in conventional weapons.
“Nuclear weapons do not guarantee North Korea’s security. They only cloud its future,” Lee said in a speech to mark Korea’s 1945 liberation from Japanese rule.
“Together with the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, reduction of conventional weapons of the North and the South must be discussed,” he said, urging the North to enter talks.
–Agencies