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SEOUL, July 13 (Yonhap) -- President Roh Moo-hyun on Wednesday said he was "optimistic" about the outcome of upcoming nuclear disarmament talks and future inter-Korean rapprochement. In a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Roh said, "I look positively on North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's meeting with Unification Minister Chung Dong-young and other inter-Korean dialogue held recently, and I am optimistic about the North Korean nuclear issue and the security situation in the Korean Peninsula." Rice flew into Seoul late Tuesday to meet with Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon to coordinate their positions at the six-party talks in Beijing in late July aimed at ending the North's nuclear weapons programs. Roh thanked Rice and Christopher Hill, U.S. Assistant Secretary for East Asian Affairs Bureau, for their roles in helping resolve the nuclear issue, saying that, "I greatly trust Secretary Rice and Assistant ...