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N. Korea asked for rice in return for inter-Korean summit, warship apology: former S. Korean President
We begin with that revelation by former president Lee Myung-bak. The previous South Korean leader says that, in July 2010, North Korea offered to hold an inter-Korean summit and issue an apology over the deadly torpedo attack on a South Korean warship IF Seoul gave it half-a-million tons of rice. The extract was reported by Seoul-based Yonhap News Agency ahead of the release next week of Lee's 800-page memoir on his presidency. The former president said he refused the offer because it would have been under Pyongyang's terms, and he wasn't comfortable with it. Lee added that the North's planned statement on the Cheonan warship sinking would have just been a general apology,.. not an acceptance of its responsibility and an apology. Lee also said he strongly pressured China to enforce international sancti...
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