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S.Korea: North must face "no choice" but to shed nuclear arms
25 Sep 2009 23:15:03 GMT
 Source: Reuters
PITTSBURGH, Sept 25 (Reuters) - North Korea must be faced with "no choice" but to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions and it is "unthinkable" to accept the North as a nuclear-armed state, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said on Friday.

"The North Koreans will not readily give up their nuclear program. What's important then is for the international community to work very closely together so that North Korea will be in a position whereby they will have no choice but to give up all of their nuclear weapons," he said.

Lee proposed a "grand bargain" of economic rehabilitation for the North in exchange for full nuclear disarmament to test whether Pyongyang is sincere about giving up its atomic arsenal, he said in an interview after the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh.

(Reporting by Paul Eckert, Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)


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