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(2nd LD) Roh says peace treaty top agenda item of inter-Korean summit
By Yoo Cheong-mo
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Yonhap) -- President Roh Moo-hyun said Tuesday that a Korean Peninsula peace treaty to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War will be the most important agenda item at his summit summit talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il slated for Oct. 2-4 in Pyongyang.
Roh's remark comes just days after he returned from a trip to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Sydney where U.S. President George W. Bush said, after a meeting with Roh, that Washington will pursue a peace treaty with Pyongyang to officially end the Korean War after "Kim Jong-il verifiably gets rid of his (nuclear) weapons programs and his weapons"
In a hastily arranged news conference at Cheong Wa Dae, Roh, meanwhile, said he won't raise the issue of the North's denuclearization seriously at the upcoming inter-Korean summit, noting the nuclear issue has already been in the process of rapid settlement at the six-party talks which also involve the U.S., China, Japan and Russia.
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