(17 Nov 2006) HEADLINE: SUMMIT DEMANDS NORTH KOREA SCRAP NUKES
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CAPTION: President Bush and other Pacific Rim leaders meeting in Vietnam are demanding that North Korea return to talks and ultimately scrap its nuclear weapons program. (Nov. 19)
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[Notes:Bush and other leaders meet in last summit session]
Ending a weekend summit in Vietnam, President Bush and other Asia-Pacific leaders issued a new call for North Korea to abandon its ambitions to be a nuclear power.
[Notes:North Korean nuclear test file footage]
The statement voices concern over the North's nuclear test explosion last month, and calls for stepped-up sanctions if it won't return to talks.
The administration was delighted with the language...
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... one top official saying it'll bolster U-S diplomatic efforts. (:22)
[Notes:Chiron: Stephen Hadley, White House national security adviser]
HADLEY: SOT "I think we're pleased with that statement, and I think it will be a good contribution to the diplomacy."
[Notes:File footage North Korean regime or soldiers or whetever]
But the White House also fears the North will use any talks as a stalling tactic ...
[Notes:Bush-Hu fotoop]
... which is why, in meetings on the fringes of the summit, the president's been urging the North's neighbors -- like China's Hu Jintao -- to keep the pressure up. (:12)
BUSH: SOT " China is a very important nation, and the United States believes strongly that by working together we can help solve problems such as North Korea and Iran." (:10)
[Notes:Pan up Cua Bac cathedral, up sound chanting]
Before the closing summit sessions, the president and first lady attended an ecumenical worship service at Hanoi's Cua Bac church.
[Notes:Bush shakes hands with white-robed choir]
It was a very visible gesture of support for the practice of faith in a still-Communist country. (:13)
BUSH: SOT "A whole society is a society which welcomes basic freedoms, and there's no more basic freedom than the basic -- the freedom to worship as you see fit." (:10)
[Notes:More church footage]
Just last week, the administration DROPPED Vietnam from its list of the world's worst violators of religious freedom -- another sign that relations between America and its one-time enemy are warming. (09)
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As the president wraps up a four-day visit to Vietnam, aides are saying he's got much to be pleased with -- beginning with the staunch backing of other leaders here for a muscular approach to North Korea. But he's equally pleased that America's trade and other ties with Vietnam are rapidly expanding -- in a nation where not so long ago young Americans were fighting and dying.
MS, The Associated Press, Hanoi (:23)
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