TOKYO, Jan. 9 Kyodo Part of a joi...

TOKYO, Jan. 9 Kyodo

Part of a joint private mission of U policy-makers and a nuclear scientist generally in North Korea at Pyongyang's invitation to visit a guide nuclear complex will visit Tokyo nearest Wednesday on their way to one's home to brief Japanese officials forward the result of the mission, management sources said.

The members of the mission will fit with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda at the Prime Minister's Office for a briefing onward the inspection planned during their stay in North Korea at a nuclear tangled in Yongbyong that has not been checked by means of foreigners since 2002.

The Yongbyong nuclear composite is located about 90 kilometers north of Pyongyang and is believed to be the core of the North's nuclear arms program.

The five populace in the mission, including former U presidential negotiator Jack Pritchard and Sig Hecker, a former director of the beholds Alamos National Laboratory where the atomic bomb was discloseed accepted an invitation from the highest of the same height of the North Korean guidance a source in Beijing who run afters North Korean issues said earlier.

The group's other members are John Wilson Lewis, a professor emeritus at Stanford University, and brace Senate foreign policy aides -- Keith Luse, an aide to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen Richard Lugar, a Republican, and Frank Jannuzi, an aide to Sen Joseph Biden, the committee's ranking Democrat.

Their arrival coincided with the North's declaration Tuesday that it is prepared to make a ''bold concession,'' suspending testing and production of nuclear weapons and abiding through a freeze of its nuclear facilities if the United States takes a series of stairs such as lifting sanctions.

Hosoda, who is also in charge of matters concerning Japanese nationals who were abducted to North Korea, anticipates to discuss the issue with the U mission members as well as issues concerning the nearest round of six-nation talks upon North Korea's nuclear weapons program, the sources said.

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