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A pro-Pyongyang newspaper pressed Seoul Wednesday to accept an offer from North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il to hold a summit with South Korea's leader.

Ex-US president Jimmy Carter, who visited the communist state late last month, said he received a "personal" written message from Kim.

Carter said the message offered unconditional talks with the United States and South Korea aimed at easing tensions, including a summit with the South's President Lee Myung-Bak.

South Korea has repeatedly said it is willing in principle to hold such a summit. But it was unenthusiastic about Carter's trip and questioned the sincerity of Kim's latest offer.

The Japan-based Choson Sinbo newspaper, which normally reflects the North's official thinking, said Seoul underestimated Carter's mission while the international community took it seriously.

Kim's offer would give Lee "a last chance to correct the direction of his policy", it said, accusing his government of pursuing a policy of confrontation with the North.

The paper also reacted coolly to Lee's latest proposal, made Monday on a visit to Berlin, that Kim attend a nuclear security summit in Seoul next March after first making a firm pledge to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions.

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