Sunday, May 1, 2011

Jimmy Carter, said NKorea wants Summit

 Former US President Jimmy Carter said Thursday that leader North Korea's Kim Jong-Il wants direct talks with the leader of the Korea of the South - an offer probably not be accepted until Pyongyang takes responsibility for violence that killed 50 South Koreans last year.

A Summit would be an important step for smoothing on animosity by the bloodshed, and a personal appeal of Kim is remarkable, even if the North Korea grows regularly for the resumption of the aid-for-disarmament talks nuclear. Generally, he wants to return to the table of negotiations without preconditions, however.


South Korea Lee Myung-bak President also floated the possibility of discussions individual with Kim — but only if the North assumes responsibility for the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed Pyongyang and an artillery attack on an island in South Korea.


Carter told journalists hours after his return from the North that he and three former European leaders did not expect to meet with Kim on their trip of three days.


But he said that Kim sends a written personal message in leaving, saying: it is prepared for a meeting at the Summit with South Korean President at any time. Carter said North Korean officials deeply regretted the death on South Korean warship Cheonan and vessel for the civilians killed in the bombing of the island.


However, he added that it was clear that "they not publicly apologize and admit guilt for the Cheonan incident." North Korea denies sinking of the ship, despite an international investigation by the Korea of the South, blamed the country. It is said that it was caused Island bombing by Korean live fire exercises.


Carter is highly respected in Korea of the North for his role in the help to work on a 1994 nuclear agreement that may have helped to avoid a war. But officials in Seoul and Washington have put little stock in its ability to implement a breakthrough this time in the nuclear talks.


It has been more than two years since the nuclear negotiators of the United States and neighbouring nations last met with the North to try to convince to abandon its atomic weapons programmes.


Since then, the North has conducted nuclear tests and missiles and proudly unveiled a new nuclear facility which could give him another way to make atomic bombs.


The United States, said that he did move on nuclear talks until the South Korea is convinced that Northern has taken responsibility for the violence of last year.


Carter, stated that the purpose of his visit is to contribute to a better understanding between the Korea of the North and the outside world, but it's officials to make real progress.


The former President, former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, former Prime Minister of Norway Gro Brundtland and former Irish President Mary Robinson met the Foreign Minister of the Northern Korea and the President of the Parliament of the country.


When asked why he thinks that Kim Jong-Il did not with the group, Carter pointed out that the President of the South did not extend to their request for a meeting or the other.


"We do not challenge the decision of a head of State on the priorities that they for their own schedule", said Carter.


Carter did a not resolve Jun Young Su, a Korean-American detained in North Korea, were allegedly accused of execution of missionary activity. He had already said he would not raise the case, although the former President flew to the Korea of North freedom of another American, jailed last year in Pyongyang.

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