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Article: Bush, South Korean leader discuss North Korea arms
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- March 8, 2001
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WASHINGTON - President Bush told South Korea's president on
Wednesday that he would not immediately resume arms negotiations
with North Korea because he questioned whether the country is living
up to its obligations. "We want to make sure that their ability to
develop and spread weapons of mass destruction was, in fact,
stopped, they're willing to stop it and that we could verify that in
fact they had stopped it," Bush said during a joint appearance with
South Korean President Kim Dae-jung.
"I do have some skepticism about the leader of North Korea," Bush
said.
Bush did give his backing to Kim's effort to reach out to North
Korea to overcome the 56-year division of the Korean peninsula, the ...