JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: President Bush is trying to push the war on terror and other security concerns to the top of the agenda at a summit of Pacific Rim nations in Thailand. Our White House correspondent Dana Bash is with the president in Bangkok.</s>DANA BASH, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Topic A for President Bush since he got to Bangkok has been North Korea and a new proposal to give written security assurances to Pyongyang, along with the four other countries that have been involved in multilateral talks in exchange for a promise from North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program. This is an issue that the president discussed with South Korea's President No. And the president told reporters that he is making good progress. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice cautioned reporters that this is just the beginning of the process and that there is a long way to go and that talks are still going to be under way for some time about just exactly how and what this written assurance would look like.</s>CONDOLEEZZA RICE, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: We want to discuss this with our partners. We are not going to go in all guns blazing and say, take it or leave it, this is it.</s>BASH: Another issue hovering over talks here in Bangkok are comments made by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir last week, essential saying that Jews run the world and that Western powers are a proxy for Jews. The president, according to his spokesman, pulled Mahathir aside, telling him that he thought those comments were wrong and divisive. The official talks here at the summit are about economics and trade, but the president and his senior aides want to talk about terrorism and convince countries who are here to work harder to dismantle terrorism. Some representatives here say that they should stick to the roots here, talk simply about the economy. But the president and his aides say that the two are inextricably linked, that when you have terrorism in any country around the world, it dismantles any good that that particular nation is trying to do to help its economy. Dana Bash, CNN, Bangkok.
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