South Korea to host next nuclear summit

14 Apr 2010, 7:00 am   -   Source: AAP
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South Korea's president says his country will host the next global nuclear summit in 2012, but will not invite the neighbours.

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South Korea's president says his country will host the next global nuclear summit in 2012.

But Lee Myung-bak told reporters on Tuesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il will not get an invitation until the North gives up its nuclear weapons ambitions.

North Korea's efforts to build a nuclear weapon program kept it out of the Washington summit, which is currently being held in the US capital.

Lee said he hoped that during the next two years North Korea would return to stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks and "achieve substantial results".

He said if that happened, "then of course we will be welcoming North Korea to take part".

Washington and other regional powers have been trying to coax North Korea back to the disarmament talks it walked out of last year.

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