The President and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Monday, July 13 (Sweden time) urged North Korea to immediately stop its missile and nuclear tests and other provocative acts that threaten the peace of the Korean Peninsula.

The two leaders held summit talks on Monday in Stockholm and agreed that the international community needs to faithfully enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1874 in order to realize the denuclearization of North Korea, according to Cheong Wa Dae.

They affirmed the fact that Sweden has been playing an active role in improving North Korea''s human rights and humanitarian support and the two countries agreed to closely cooperate for stability and peace on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia.

At a joint press conference after the Korea-Sweden summit, President Lee said the international community should strongly fulfill Resolution 1874 and make North Korea realize the need to return to the dialogue channel and give up its nuclear arms, since that is better for them than possessing nuclear weapons and living poorly.

Prime Minister Reinfeldt said Sweden also has the same opinion as South Korea and it will make efforts in resolving North Korean issues for the duration of its six-month presidency of the European Union, expressing Sweden''s strong support for the six-party talks.

The two leaders also shared an understanding that the two countries have great potential in cooperation in economy and trade sectors and agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the IT, high-tech, industrial and environment-friendly technology sectors.

The two countries agreed to focus on extending bilateral cooperation in the biogas and atomic energy sectors, based on Sweden''s advanced technology.

In order to recover from the global financial crisis, Lee and Reinfeldt united their voices to say that the international community needs multilateral cooperation and to highlight the importance of green growth strategy as a future growth vision. They also agreed to closely cooperate in order to respond to climate change issues.

Lee asked Prime Minister Reinfeldt to pay a reciprocal visit to Korea in the future and the latter accepted his invitation.

President Lee will fly back to Seoul on July 14, completing his three-nation European trip.