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MB "남북정상, 대가없다는 전제하 만나야"

 

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국무회의 주재..“원칙 충족없이 남북회담 성사안돼”

이명박(MB) 대통령은 2일 남북정상회담과 관련, “정상회담을 위한 대가는 있을 수 없다는 대(大)전제하에 남북정상이 만나야 한다”고 말했다.

이 대통령은 이날 오전 청와대에서 국무회의를 주재하면서 이같이 지적한 뒤 “이 원칙을 양보하는 일은 없을 것이다. 원칙을 지키는 것은 남북 모두에게 좋은 것”이라고 강조했다고 박선규 청와대 대변인은 전했다.

그러면서 “남북정상회담과 관련해 언론에서 여러 이야기가 나오고 있다”며 “남북정상회담은 확고한 원칙 아래 추진할 수 있는 것이고, 그 원칙이 충족되지 않으면 성사될 수 없다”고 말했다.

이는 최근 정치권 안팎에서 연내 남북정상회담 개최설이 지속적으로 나오고 있는 가운데 회담을 위한 ‘거래’는 있을 수 없다는 점을 확인하면서 남북간 진정성을 강조한 것으로 해석된다.

이 대통령은 앞서 지난달말 영국 BBC와의 인터뷰에서도 “남북정상이 만나는 데 조건이 없어야 한다”고 말했으며, 이에 대해 박선규 대변인은 “본질을 떠나 부차적인 조건을 다는 것을 말하는 것”이라고 설명한 바 있다.

이어 이 대통령은 “설 물가 관리에 신경을 써주기 바란다”면서 “물가와 직접 관련없는 장관들도 현장에 나가 현장을 살피고 얘기도 들어봐야 한다”고 참석한 국무위원들에게 주문했다.

특히 “전통시장 상품권(온누리상품권)이 많이 활용될 수 있도록 힘써 달라”고 당부한 뒤 “특별한 일이 없는 한 국무위원들도 이번 명절에 고향을 방문하기 바란다”며 “귀향해서 이런저런 이야기도 많이 듣고 고향분들의 궁금증에 대해서도 답해 드렸으면 한다”고 말했다.

이 대통령은 아울러 지난달말 스위스 다보스포럼 참석에 언급, “우리 국격이 생각 이상으로 높아졌다는 걸 느꼈다”면서 “해외에서 우리를 높게 평가하는 만큼 우리의 부담도 크다”고 지적했다.

또 “2010년은 선진국가의 기초를 다지기에 좋은 해”라면서 “선진국가 목표달성의 기회를 놓치지 않으려면 우리 앞에 놓인 여러 후진적 장애요소를 잘 극복해 나가야 한다”고 강조했다.

특히 “각 부처별로 후진적 관행, 비효율적 요소를 적극 제거해 주길 바란다”며 후속조치를 지시했다.

이밖에 이 대통령은 “오는 25일이면 정부 출범 2주년이 된다”고 상기시킨 뒤 “국무위원들이 지난 2년간 이룬 업적에 자신감을 갖고 임했으면 좋겠다”면서 “국회에서 답변할 때도 국민에게 직접 답변한다는 자세로 적극적이고 자신감있게 해달라”고 덧붙였다.

[핫이슈] 남북 정상회담 연내 성사될까?

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다음은 워싱턴포스트 http://www.washingtonpost.com


있는 
AP의 기사입니다.

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SKorea rules out any reward


for summit with NKorea

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Kim Young-tak, head of a South Korean delegation, center, answers reporters' questions before leaving for North Korea's border city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine, or CIQ office, near the border village of Panmunjom, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. A group of South Korean officials traveled Monday into North Korea for talks on a joint industrial complex despite renewed tension following the North's artillery firing toward their disputed sea border. (AP Photo/Choi Woo-jung, Yonhap)
 
 
 
Kim Young-tak, head of a South Korean delegation, center, answers reporters' questions before leaving for North Korea's border city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine, or CIQ office, near the border village of Panmunjom, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. A group of South Korean officials traveled Monday into North Korea for talks on a joint industrial complex despite renewed tension following the North's artillery firing toward their disputed sea border. (AP Photo/Choi Woo-jung, Yonhap) (Choi Woo-jung - AP)
In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, center, looks on during his visit to the renovated Hyangsan Hotel in North Phyongan Province, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
 
In this undated photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, center, looks on during his visit to the renovated Hyangsan Hotel in North Phyongan Province, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) (AP)
South Korean Unification Minister Hyun In-taek answers a reporter's question during a foreign reporters press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday ruled out any reward to North Korea in return for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, just days after the South's leader raised the possibility of a summit this year. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
 
 
 
South Korean Unification Minister Hyun In-taek answers a reporter's question during a foreign reporters press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday ruled out any reward to North Korea in return for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, just days after the South's leader raised the possibility of a summit this year. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) (Lee Jin-man - AP)
South Korean Unification Minister Hyun In-taek answers reporter's question during foreign reporters press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday ruled out any reward to North Korea in return for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, just days after the South's leader raised the possibility of a summit this year. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
 
 
 
South Korean Unification Minister Hyun In-taek answers reporter's question during foreign reporters press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday ruled out any reward to North Korea in return for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, just days after the South's leader raised the possibility of a summit this year. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) (Lee Jin-man - AP)
 
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By KWANG-TAE KIM
 
The Associated Press

Tuesday, February 2, 2010; 1:02 AM
 
 

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's president Tuesday ruled out giving North Korean leader Kim Jong Il a reward for staging any future summit with Seoul.

 

President Lee Myung-bak recently raised the possibility of an inter-Korean summit sometime this year amid speculation that negotiations for meeting with Kim were under way.

The leaders of North and South Korea, which have remained in a state of war since 1953, have held two summits in Pyongyang over the past decade: in 2000 and 2007, before Lee took office in 2008.

 

Lee, who has taken a tougher approach toward Pyongyang than his liberal predecessors, told the BBC last week in Davos, Switzerland, that a meeting with Kim "could probably" take place within the year. But he said Tuesday that North Korea would not be rewarded for agreeing to such a meeting.

 

"The leaders of South and North Korea should meet on the premise that there will be no price for a summit," he said in a Cabinet meeting, according to his office.

 

The South Korean government allegedly paid hundreds of millions of dollars to North Korea in 2000 to help arrange the summit between late President Kim Dae-jung and Kim Jong Il.

 

South Korea's top official in charge of North Korea said a summit would help settle the standoff over North Korea's nuclear weapons programs, as well as South Korean concerns about prisoners of war and abductees believed held in the North.

 

Unification Minister Hyun In-taek said it was hard to say when such a summit would take place.

 

Officials from South Korea, the U.S., Japan, Russia and China have been working to get North Korea back to nuclear disarmament talks after Pyongyang walked away from the negotiations last year.

 

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Lee's comments came amid signs of renewed tension between the two Koreas.

 

Last week, North Korea lobbed dozens of shells toward the poorly marked maritime border with South Korea, prompting South Korea to respond with a barrage of warning shots. Pyongyang called it a military exercise, and South Korean officials reported no casualties or damage.

 

Despite the flare-up, officials from the two Koreas met Monday at the North Korean border town of Kaesong to discuss their joint factory park. Talks ended without any significant progress.