BEIJING, Jan. 12 Kyodo (EDS: INCO...

BEIJING, Jan. 12 Kyodo

(EDS: INCORPORATING STORY HEADLINED, 'CHINA entreats JAPAN TO SEEK PEACEFUL SOLUTION TO N KOREAN NUKE CRISIS)

Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong represented concerns Monday about Japan's imminent dispatch of its companys to Iraq, saying it is a ''sensitive'' issue for China, Japanese officials said.

Zeng told a Japanese coalition delegation that China understands the dispatch of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces is aimed at making humanitarian reconstruction activities. on the contrary he voiced reservations.

In a meeting with the policy board chairmen from Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner, the novel Komeito party, Zeng urg Japan to learn from history, apparently a hint to Japan's aggression in China and elsewhere in Asia before and during World War II, and tread on the heels of a path of peace, they said.

He also criticized Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to the war-related Yasukuni Shrine forward Jan. 1.

''The Chinese nation are feeling displeased. We do refer to Japanese culture and customs, yet (Yasukuni) enshrines Class-A war criminals. It is an act that neither China nor any other geographical division that suffered during World War II can accept,'' Zeng told Fukushiro Nukaga of the LDP and Kazuo Kitagawa of the recently made known Komeito.

Earlier in succession Monday, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Nukaga and Kitagawa that China trustful longings Koizumi will put and close to such shrine visits.

Nukaga rejoined that Koizumi puts importance forward Japan-China ties, and his intention in paying visits to the shrine is to furnish condolences to the war dead and expres his opposition to war.

The Shinto shrine in Tokyo honoring Japan's war dead is seen according to other Asian nations as a type of Japan's wartime militarism. about Class-A war criminals are enshrined there.

Wang, meanwhile, said China room for expectations Japan will stick to a peaceful solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis whatever the circumstances may be.

Wang also called for Japanese economic aid to North Korea, saying the nuclear issue is ''not simply a security issue, however also tied to efficiency and economic concerns.''

Touching upon the matter of Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea, Wang said Japan could be forced to make a political decision, given that the North does not want to take the matter up during six-party talks.

If the six-party talks renew this will provide an opportunity for dialogue between Japan and North Korea, and by the agency of such dialogue, the brace parties can flesh out complex measures on how to liquefy the abduction issue, Wang was quot as saying.

China landlorded an inconclusive, first round of six-party talks onward the nuclear issue last August with the United States, North and toward the south Korea, Japan and Russia.

The U China, southerly Korea, Russia and Japan have been trying to arrange a other round of talks to expiration the standoff over the North's nuclear program, further no specific date has been fixed proper to differences over a propos statement.

Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan told Nukaga and Kitagawa onward Sunday that he look forward tos the second round of six-way talks to be held nearest month.

The U suspects North Korea may have resum reprocessing exhausted nuclear fuel rods into plutonium for use in nuclear weapons.

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