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North Korea Sought Talks and Attached a Hefty Price Tag, South’s Ex-Leader SaysBy CHOE SANG-HUN January 30, 2015李明博称朝鲜多次以谈判勒索援助CHOE SANG-HUN 2015年01月30日SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea repeatedly but unsuccessfully pushed for a summit meeting with the former South Korean leader Lee Myung-bak, demanding a huge aid package, including $10 billion in cash, as an incentive, Mr. Lee says in a memoir to be published next week.韩国首尔——韩国前总统李明博(Lee Myung-bak)在回忆录中写道，朝鲜曾多次推动与李明博举行峰会，条件是让韩国向朝鲜提供巨额援助，其中包括100亿美元资金，但朝鲜一直没有得偿所愿。这本回忆录将于下周出版。Mr. Lee, president from 2008 to 2013, says in the book that he rejected the overture, which began in 2009, because he wanted to break the pattern of rewarding the recalcitrant government in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, simply for agreeing to talk.曾在2008年至2013年间担任总统的李明博在书中写道，他拒绝了朝鲜从2009年就开始提出的提议，因为他想要打破那种只要朝鲜同意谈判，就为难以对付的平壤政府提供奖赏的模式。“The North believed that the South Korean president always wanted an inter-Korean summit with Chairman Kim Jong-il, but I thought we should correct this North Korean belief before we could improve South-North relations,” Mr. Lee says in his 800memoir, titled “The Times of the President.”李明博在长达800页的回忆录《总统的时间》(The Times of the President)中写道，“朝鲜认为韩国总统总是希望与朝鲜领袖金正日(Kim Jong-il)举行南北峰会，但我认为我们首先要改变朝鲜的这种想法，才能改善朝韩关系。”Chapters of the memoir were made available to members of the news media on Thursday. The book, which Mr. Lee wrote with the help of former aides, contains his perspectives on some of his government’s secret dealings with the North that have been little reported.新闻媒体于周四读到了回忆录的部分章节。李明博在其前助手的帮助下撰写了这本书，书中谈到了他对韩国政府与朝鲜达成的一些秘密协议的看法，这些协议此前鲜为人知。Mr. Lee says the North first suggested a summit meting with him when Kim Jong-il, then the country’s leader, sent a delegation to Seoul, the South’s capital, in August 2009 to the funeral of a former president, Kim Dae-jung.李明博表示，朝鲜首次提议双方举行峰会，是在2009年8月。当时，时任朝鲜领导人金正日派代表团前往韩国首都首尔，参加韩国前总统金大中(Kim Dae-jung)的葬礼。Kim Dae-jung, who was president from 1998 to 2003, had held a summit meeti