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Obama ends Asia tour with talks on N.Korea

U.S. President Barack Obama discussed luring North Korea back to nuclear talks and finishing by next year a delayed trade pact with Seoul in a meeting with President Lee Myung-bak on Thursday at the end of his Asian tour.

Obama, who arrived in Asia last week and flies home later in the day, and Lee have been putting pressure on the destitute North by targeting its finances and telling Pyongyang it will win massive rewards if it abandons its atomic ambitions.

North Korea rattled regional security just ahead of Obama's first visit to Seoul since taking office by sparking a naval fight with the South and telling the world early this month it had produced a fresh batch of arms-grade plutonium.Read more

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