2009-11-19 06:30:39 - US president is on a week-long tour of East Asia focus on North Korea's nuclear ambitions talks in Seoul. 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, telling Pyongyang it will win massive rewards if it abandons its atomic ambitions.

Obama, arrived in Asia last week fyling to Japan, Singapore and China and flies home later in the day. 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.
But Pyongyang has muffled the rhetoric since Obama began his trip to Asia a week ago.

The summit in Seoul is expected to be less problematic than meetings in China where Obama barely bridged divides

on trade, currency policy and Tibet.
Obama and Lee will send a clear message that they want a comprehensive settlement with North Korea and there is no divide in how they see the issue' said Cheong Seong-chang, an analyst at the Sejong Institute think tank near Seoul.

Thousands of cheering South Koreans lined the streets of downtown Seoul as Obama's motorcade drove by. Obama and Lee are expected to hold a news conference at 0330 GMT.The Obama administration plans to send its first envoy to North Korea in the next few weeks to revive comatose six-way talks on ending the North's nuclear ambitions in return for massive aid to repair its failed economy and better global standing for the largely ostracised state.