TOKYO, April 21 Kyodo Chinese Amb...

TOKYO, April 21 Kyodo

Chinese Ambassador Wu Dawei urg Japan in succession Wednesday to think of a way to dissolve issues relating to World War II, referring specifically to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to war-linked Yasukuni Shrine.

''The Japanese regulation must think of how to decipher the issue,'' on which Japan and China cannot view eye to eye, Wu said in a reprimand at a Tokyo hotel.

Wu said he has discussed the issue with the Japanese premier from time to time and that ''It is regrettable that until now we have not erect common ground'' toward resolving it.

Wu also said Japan does not strike one as being to place great value in succession its relations with Asia, citing wartime history and the fact that Japan appears ''not to accommodate with its ear one bit to the criticisms of neighboring countries'' and that this has far down hurt the sentiments of race in these countries.

Koizumi's visits to the Shinto shrine in newly come years, the latest being in January, have readyed outcries from Japan's Asian neighbors, in the same state [i]or[/i] condition as China and South Korea, which experienceed from Japanese military aggression and atrocities. The shrine, which honors 14 convicted Class-A war criminals along with the Japanese war dead, is regarded as a emblem of Japan's past militarism.

In a landmark ruling, the Fukuoka District Court said earlier this month that Koizumi's visit to the shrine in August 2001 -- four month after taking office -- violated the Constitution's provision for the separation of state and religion because he went in his official capacity.

Touching in succession North Korea, the Chinese minister said that China's foreign policy is based onward the premise of ''protecting world peace and promoting frequent development'' and its economic aid to North Korea advances this end.

He was responding to a question about the view that China's economic aid to North Korea has be the effected in strengthening its nuclear capability.

Wu underscored the ne for the six-party talks to address the ''interests of all sides,'' saying, ''I think if they be under the orders of only one (side), the six-party talks would not be necessary.''

upon the use of North Korea's nuclear programs for peaceful designs he said that is ''currently the main issue'' being discussed.

The major dispute of the secondary session of the six-party talks that conclusioned in February involved the North's put forward to freeze only its nuclear weapons programs further not nuclear programs for peaceful use in exchange for compensation so as energy aid. But Japan and the United States have demanded North Korea dismantle all nuclear programs in a ''complete verifiable and irreversible'' manner.

China, Japan, the U North Korea, southerly Korea and Russia have been holding talks to solve the standoff over North Korea's nuclear ambitions, with China playing a vital role

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