SEOUL: Myanmar has promised to comply with UN
resolutions targeting North Korea's weapons programmes, a Seoul official said
Tuesday, following suspicions of military collaboration in recent years.
The
Seoul presidential spokeswoman was speaking from the Southeast Asian nation
after a summit Monday between visiting South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak and
Myanmar's President Thein Sein.
Myanmar
has also agreed to free a North Korean refugee serving a five-year prison term
since 2010 for illegally entering the country, the spokeswoman said.
Lee is
the first South Korean leader to visit the nation formerly known as Burma since
a predecessor narrowly escaped a North Korean assassination attempt in 1983.
A bomb
planted by a Pyongyang agent missed then-president Chun Doo-Hwan but killed 17
other South Koreans plus four locals.
Myanmar
angrily broke ties with the North after that incident but restored them in
2007. Reports of military cooperation since then had been a cause for concern
for Seoul in the past.
Thein
Sein on Monday denied any nuclear cooperation with Pyongyang, and said his
country would abide by UN Security Council resolutions on the North's nuclear
and missile programmes, the Seoul spokeswoman told AFP by phone.
The
resolutions also ban weapons exports by the North.
The
Myanmar leader has previously denied any nuclear cooperation with the North. He
has won international praise for a series of sweeping political and economic
reforms since taking office last year.
At
Monday's meeting Lee offered to expand grants and development loans and start
programmes to share his country's economic development experience.
The two
leaders agreed to expand cooperation in energy and resources development and
infrastructure construction in Myanmar, the spokeswoman said.
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