UNITED STATES: South Korean President Roh Tae-woo meets US President George Bush

Record ID: 336001

  • Title: UNITED STATES: South Korean President Roh Tae-woo meets US President George Bush
  • Date: 6th June 1990
  • Summary: SLATE INFORMATION
  • Embargoed: 21st June 1990 13:00
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  • Location: WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVAB1WABTRLCH3D84F9BMTQP5P6R
  • Story Text: United States (US) President George Bush met South Korean President Roh Tae-woo on Wednesday (June 6) and endorsed Roh's historic meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev earlier this week.

    As the two leaders posed for photographers in the Oval Office, Bush described as "appropriate" and "very important" the meeting on Monday in San Francisco between Roh and Gorbachev.

    Roh, speaking to reporters after the 50-minute meeting with Bush, said they had discussed ways of achieving results, based on the South Korean leader's talks with Gorbachev.

    According to Roh, the Soviet leader had agreed to help promote openness and reform in communist North Korea which could eventually "promote progress towards the reunification of Korea."
    South Korea hopes for reconciliation with North Korea after some 45 years of hatred and estrangement following the division of the peninsula after World War Two. The North and South are still technically at war although a truce ended combat in the Korean war in 1953.
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