MANILA, Jan. 31 Kyodo Foreign min...

MANILA, Jan. 31 Kyodo

Foreign ministers from East Asia and Latin America share a desire to view the North Korean nuclear issue resolv in a peaceful fashion, southerly Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Ban Ki lunation said Saturday.

After a two-day gathering of the Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC), Ban said the ministers ''recognized that the North Korean nuclear issue constitutes the greatest in quantity serious threat to regional as well as global peace and security.''

''In this connection,'' he said, ''they supported the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and peaceful resolution of the issue in consequence of dialogue.''

Ban also said the East Asian and Latin American ministers ''voiced their support for continuing the proces of six-nation talks and reiterated FEALAC-wide support for peace and stability forward the Korean Peninsula.''

Speaking to Kyodo of the present days later, he said it is not clear when the nearest round of six-party talks onward the communist North's nuclear program will be held if it be not that made it clear that Seoul reliances it will be held in February.

''We are intensifying diplomatic efforts toward this end'' Ban said.

The six-party framework involves North and southward Korea plus China, Japan, Russia and the United States.

The countries held their first meeting in Beijing last August to examine to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue peacefully, if it be not that no further talks have been held since then to be ascribed to disagreements between the U and North Korea across how to resolve the crisis.

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