f.individual countries are engaging in practices that are purposely designed to boost their exports and expense of others, that that can contribute to problems as opposed to solving them. president lee on this same subject? president lee? going back to our white house correspondent there, traveling with the president. our president had harsh words for north korea earlier today when visiting with troops at the memorial. do we have wendel? wendel, he had harsh words. for north korea? yes. the president he did. and this summit points to as an example of the problems of the closed society the president saying that it
the preferred choice is for north koreans to say we re going to meet our previous commitments. we re going to engage in a irreversible path towards denuclear saigs fchl they re willing to take those steps, then you will see a south korea, a united states and international community that can give them substantial assistance to help develop their countries and improve their security over the long term. now, president lee had and i have discussed this extensively. our belief is that there will be a appropriate time and place to reenter into six-party talks but we have to see a seriousness of purpose by the north koreans. in order to spend the
united states is prepared to provide economic assistance to north korea and help integrate into the international community. provided north korea meets its obligations. finally since this is global korea, we discuss aid range of issues before us, the need to create an approach where all of our economies developed and emerging can help achieve global growth that is balanced and sustained. we discussed common security challenges, and i told president lee we re looking forward to south korea hosting the next nuclear security summit in two years, yet another example of south korean leadership and a step towards our goal of securing materials around the world. again, i want to thank my good friend, president lee for hospitality and leadership. we mark the 60th anniversary of the war that turned us into strong allies i want to salute
discussed this. and. this is just a follow onto the work we ve done. now, you know as i ve said, i think when i was first asked in india, it s not our habit to comment on actions by the federal reserve. but. as president of the united states, i can tell you that my instructions to my team including secretary gitner is the focus every day on how we can grow our economy, and how we can increase exports, and how we can make sure that even as we re buying goods from places like south korea we re also selling goods to places like south korea. ta is part of the reason why we think that getting this freed trade agreement done is so important. and you know, president lee and i discussed this and our instructions are that we don t
what you re al you ding to is a popular concern in the united states of america. that is why president lee and i agreed we need to make sure that over the next several weeks we are crossing ts, dotting is and being able to make the case to both the korean people and united states population that this is good for both countries. and if we rush something, then that can t garner popular support, it s going to be a problem. we think we can make the case. we want to make sure that case is air tight. all right. we weren t able to get the english translation for president lee s statement but we do have wendel traveling with the president there and its been great community indicating with us as to what s happening over there. do you want to wrap this up and tell whaus to suspect for the rest of the trip?