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Article: (3rd LD) Roh urges Kim Jong-il to quickly resolve nuke dispute.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- June 23, 2005
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By Hwang Doo-hyong SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- President Roh Moo-hyun Thursday urged North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il to peacefully resolve the North Korean nuclear issue as soon as possible. Roh made the remark while meeting with North Korea's chief delegate Kwon Ho-ung to the 15th inter-Korean ministerial talks currently underway in Seoul, Roh's spokesman Kim Man-soo said."We pay due attention to Chairman Kim Jong-il's remark that denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was the final wish of North Korea's late leader Kim Il-sung," Roh was quoted as saying. Kim Jong-il, chairman of the North's National Defense Commission, told South Korean Unification Minister ...