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North Korea rejects summits

June 1, 2011
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, front right, and his third son Kim Jong Un, front left, pose with North Korean soldiers
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, front right, and his third son Kim Jong Un, front left, pose with North Korean soldiersImage: AP

North Korea said Wednesday it had rejected a South Korean proposal to hold a series of three summits to ease tensions on the peninsula. The North's powerful National Defence Commission (NDC) said the South, at a secret meeting in May, had proposed the meetings to start late this month at the border truce village of Panmunjom. It said Seoul "begged" for the summits but stuck to its precondition for dialogue: that Pyongyang apologise for two deadly border incidents last year. But the North said there would be no such summits as long as South Korea follows a hostile policy "and keeps insisting that our side should abandon its nuclear programme and apologise over the two incidents". It repeated a vow made Monday that it would no longer engage with the current conservative government in Seoul. AFP