Article: South Korea/United States/North Korea: Lee, Obama agree to seek tough response to N. Korean nuclear test.

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May 27, 2009
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Section: General News - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama agreed Tuesday to seek a stern, unified international reaction to North Korea's latest nuclear test as the U.N. Security Council was moving to adopt a new resolution condemning the communist state's action.

The agreement came in a brief telephone conversation between the two leaders.

Pyongyang said it conducted an underground nuclear test early Monday. The North detonated a nuclear device October 2006 in its first-ever nuclear experiment.

Lee held telephone talks with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on Monday.

"President Lee and ...

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