Unification Minister Lee Jae-jeong has said that another inter-Korean summit should be held under conditions and procedures different from those of the previous one, declaring that the next summit should be focused on bringing peace and prosperity to the Korean Peninsula.

The minister made the remarks at a forum in response to a question about whether Seoul would provide incentives to Pyongyang for another inter-Korean summit, as it did when it gave the North cash to realize the historic summit of June 2000.

The official said that now is not the time to discuss an inter-Korean summit, as it's more important to focus on the six-party nuclear talks.

He also said that the six-party process should yield progress before Seoul and Pyongyang tackle all inter-Korean matters like South-North dialogue and resuming humanitarian aid to the poverty-stricken Stalinist country.

He predicted that the six-nation multilateral disarmament dialogue would bear fruit in the near future.