President Lee Myung-bak returned home Friday after a trip to Russia's Far Eastern city of Vladivostok for an annual summit of Pacific Rim economies, and then to Greenland, Norway and Kazakhstan for talks mainly on resource development and climate change.
During the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, Lee urged other leaders to embrace freer trade to tackle global economic difficulties and concerted efforts to curb soaring grain prices.
The visit to Greenland and Norway yielded cooperation agreements on climate change, resources development in the Arctic as well as polar shipping routes.
Lee delivered a peace speech at the University of Oslo, urging Japan to learn from Europe and sincerely atone for wartime atrocities committed during its 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
In Kazakhstan, Lee and President Nursultan Nazarbayev celebrated the groundbreaking for a joint power plant project in the Central Asian nation and pledged to further expand cooperation in energy, plants and atomic power. (Yonhap)