US President George W. Bush on Monday recommitted himself to finding peaceful solutions to disputes over North Korea's nuclear weapons programs and Iran's atomic ambitions.
"Both regimes have nuclear ambitions. Nuclear weapons in the hands of these regimes would make the people of the Middle East and Northeast Asia less secure," he said after talks with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
"The president and I discussed how the International Atomic Energy Agency and the six-party talks provide the best opportunity to seek peaceful, diplomatic solutions to our concerns about these weapons programs," said Bush.
The United States, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea have been trying to convince North Korea to renounce nuclear weapons in return for a package of economic and diplomatic incentives.