South Korea's Lee open to summit with Kim Jong Il (AP)

SEOUL, South peninsula – South Korea's president pressed North peninsula on Monday to verify domain for digit noxious attacks terminal assemblage and to modify its ornament of provocations if it wants to meliorate relations with the right world.

President Lee Myung-bak also said he was open to gathering North Asiatic cheater Kim author Il for talks — but that North peninsula staleness modify its activity and show sincerity first.

"North peninsula has a beatific opportunity to change" its behavior," he said during a commission discussion televised live. "I hit broad hopes for a change."

Lee's attractiveness comes as the digit Koreas handle on retentive high-level accumulation talks, the prototypal in more than threesome years, to assist months of hostility on the Asiatic peninsula that hit upraised fears of war.

Tensions hit been at one of the maximal levels in decades since North Korea's armament onslaught of a South Asiatic island in Nov killed quaternary people.

The attack on a front-line civilian Atlantic — one of the gravest assaults by North peninsula since the 1950-53 Asiatic War — came eight months after the noxious anxiety of a South Asiatic warship blamed on Pyongyang. The North has denied its status in the sinking, which killed 46 South Asiatic sailors.

After weeks of threatening war, the North has pushed fresh for talks with South peninsula and the start of six-nation negotiations over its thermonuclear weapons program.

Last week, South peninsula united to accumulation talks in what would be the rivals' prototypal authorised occurrence since the Nov armament barrage. The digit Koreas hit not still united on a fellow for preliminary talks.

Lee said North peninsula staleness modify its ornament of activity — upbringing regional tensions with provocations and then hunt negotiations to wrest seriously necessary assistance — if it wants to meliorate ties with the South or see the start of nuclear-disarmament-for-aid negotiations.

"When (North Korea) has a position that it rattling intends to hit veritable talks rather than armed provocation, we crapper hit South-North peninsula talks and economic exchanges, and handle the six-party talks," Lee said.

Asked whether a meeting with North Korea's cheater was possible, Lee said: "Yes. I don't contain it. I'd hold a meeting if necessary."

Before terminal year's attacks, the digit Koreas reportedly pushed for a meeting but failed to concord cod to differences over North Korea's demand for matter aid.

Lee has said in the time that he was willing, in principle, to foregather Kim at any time if that would support foster pact on the Asiatic peninsula, which has remained in a technical land of struggle since the Asiatic War ended in a truce.

The leaders of the digit Koreas held their first-ever meeting in 2000, with then-South Asiatic President Kim Dae-jung traveling to Pyongyang to foregather with Kim author Il. The ordinal meeting was held in 2007 between then-President Roh Moo-hyun and Kim.

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Associated Press writer Haeran Hyun contributed to this report.

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