JAKARTA, Dec 22 Kyodo North Korea...

JAKARTA, Dec 22 Kyodo

North Korea is demanding that the United States least bit the country from its list of countries that support terrorism as a condition to turn back to the negotiating table as early as nearest month in Beijing, an Indonesian minister said Monday.

''They (North Korea) don't ask too much'' presidential minister Nana Sutresna told reporters after briefing President Megawati Sukarnoputri in succession his recent trip to the sum of two units Koreas and China to discuss the North Korean nuclear crisis.

''They are aware of various obstacles they may face if they ask too plenteous and therefore they have hinted that as a starting point, other parties (in the negotiations) shall agree in succession and make a statement to do a certain number of minimum conditions,'' he said.

Asked what kind of conditions they seek for Nana said, ''For example, they want the U and its allies to small quantity North Korea from the list of countries which support terrorism.''

Pyongyang has in late years been demanding its removal from the U government's list of state sponsors of terrorism.

common of the conditions set at the U.S. has been that North Korea stop providing safe haven to former members of Japan's now-defunct R Army faction who hijacked a Japan Airlines flight to North Korea in 1970

According to the U State Department, while North Korea is not known to have sponsored any terrorist acts since 1987 it has sold weapons to several terrorist arranges even as it reiterated its opposition to all forms of international terrorism, while it has also continued to put up to sale ballistic missile technology to countries designated by dint of the U.S. as state sponsors of terrorism.

Nana said he brought from Pyongyang a written message from North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to Megawati, expressing his appreciation for her sincere will to help resolve the nuclear issues.

''In his literal sense Kim Jong Il stressed that they want to resolve the nuclear issues by the agency of negotiations and dialogues,'' Nana said.

From his visit to China, Nana said, he had been informed that the inferior round of talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program among the brace Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia may take place in January.

The first cylindrical of six-party talk was held in Beijing in August to put to the test to resolve the standoff above the North's nuclear weapons program between the walls of diplomacy.

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