President Lee says inter-Korean relations will soon be repaired

SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Yonhap) -- The relationship between the divided Koreas will soon be repaired despite the current chill in ties, but only when North Korea realizes it has to work with South Korea to receive the help it needs, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Friday.

The remarks came hours after a North Korean committee on unification and
inter-Korean affairs said the communist nation will no longer honor any political
or military agreements reached between the two Koreas.
"North Korea must realize which country out of the many nations in the world
sincerely works to help it. If the North thinks hard enough, it will realize it
is South Korea that will help it with compassion, and North Korea must realize
this," Lee said in nationally televised roundtable discussion.
bdk@yna.co.kr
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