US President George W. Bush talked on Tuesday over the telephone
with his South Korean counterpart Roh Moo-hyun on the
Inter-Korean?summit, the White House said.
Roh "briefed the president on the results and his discussions at
the Inter-Korean summit that was held last week," White House
spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters.
The two leaders agreed that the first and foremost goal is the
denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Perino said.
Roh had two rounds of summit talks with Kim Jong Il, the top
leader of DPRK, on last Wednesday, with the two sides agreeing to
promoting peace and cooperation on the Korean Peninsula.
The summit is the second of its kind since the peninsula was
divided more than half a century ago. Roh's predecessor, Kim
Dae-jung, traveled to the DPRK for the first inter-Korean summit in
June 2000.
(Xinhua News Agency October 10, 2007)
