President Lee says no compromise against North's threats

SEOUL, June 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Saturday his
government will not make any compromise against North Korea's stepped up threats
following its second nuclear test.
"I would like to make it clear that there will be no compromise against things
that threaten our people and security," Lee said in a speech marking Memorial
Day. "North Korea is threatening the peace and safety of our people as well as
the world by conducting a nuclear test and launching missiles."
Lee's stern message comes as the United Nations Security Council as well as South
Korea and Japan were negotiating possible sanctions on North Korea for conducting
the May 25 nuclear test.
"North Korea must keep its promise of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and
come to the six-party and inter-Korean talks," Lee said.
The blast from North Korea's most recent test is believed to have been more
powerful than its first test conducted in 2006, prompting the U.N. Security
Council to start work on drafting stronger punitive sanctions against the
recalcitrant communist regime.
World powers, including North Korea's traditional ally China, unanimously
condemned the North's latest nuclear test, declaring that it clearly violated an
earlier U.N. resolution adopted in 2006 soon after Pyongyang conducted its first
test.
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