S.Korea's Roh says North can expect flexibility

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http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5865349&cKey=1118631909000

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun is optimistic about North Korea returning to six-country talks on its nuclear ambitions and said on Monday Pyongyang would see more flexibility if it did go back to negotiations.

Speaking publicly for the first time since a meeting with President Bush in Washington last Friday, Roh urged the North to decide to return to the talks it has boycotted for the past year and reap the benefits regional powers are ready to offer.

"If the six-party talks resume, I am certain that there will be more flexible and progressive dialogue," Roh told a conference marking the fifth anniversary of an unprecedented North-South summit in Pyongyang.

"We are preparing comprehensive, very detailed and active measures" to aid the North so that it can secure political stability and make economic progress, he said.

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1. He's basically telling N. Korea

with a big wink that everyone knows that dealing with the US is, ahem, difficult all around ie: all the players know the neocon artists, Condi and El Chimperor are BAT SHIT!!
I think he's just doing a bit of premptive handholding.

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