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           S. Korea's Park: 'No North Korean Provocation Can Succeed'

   by VOA News

   South Korean President Park Geun-hye says President Barack Obama's
   vision of a world without nuclear weapons must start on the Korean
   peninsula, where the South lives in fear of a nuclear attack from the
   North.
   Park addressed a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress as she continues
   her visit to Washington. She said her country will never accept a
   nuclear North Korea and vowed "no North Korean provocation can
   succeed."
   She also thanked Congress for American support, calling the countries'
   friendship "second to none" as they work to improve their economies and
   create a path toward reunifying the Korean peninsula.
   After meeting Tuesday with Obama at the White House, Park said Seoul
   and Washington must not tolerate North Korea's recent wave of threats.
   Obama said the United States is ready to engage diplomatically with the
   North if it decides to embrace a "peaceful path." But he said the days
   when North Korea could create a crisis and elicit concessions are
   "over," calling the United States and South Korea "as united as ever"
   and North Korea "more isolated than ever."
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   Park is in the U.S. for a five-day visit, which she began Monday at the
   United Nations. The South Korean leader is heading a delegation of more
   than 50 South Korean business leaders and will stop Thursday in Los
   Angeles to meet with Korean entrepreneurs.
   The trip is meant to send a strong message of unity to the North, which
   gradually has reduced the intensity of its war rhetoric, following
   weeks of threats of nuclear and conventional attacks against the United
   States and South Korea.
   Earlier this week, U.S. officials said they believe North Korea has
   removed two mid-range missiles from imminent-launch status, in an
   apparent further easing of tensions.
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