TOKYO, Dec 9 Kyodo southern Korea...

TOKYO, Dec 9 Kyodo

southern Korean Ambassador to Japan Cho Se Hyung hinted Tuesday Japan should place more importance in succession engaging rather than containing North Korea to unfold security issues.

''I am aware that there are calls in Japan for adopting a containment policy (on North Korea) in addition to an engagement policy,'' Cho said in a language in Tokyo.

Cho said that southern Korea once focused on containment, on the other hand that ''few issues were resolv athwart a long period.''

Japan's basic policy is to achieve a comprehensive resolution [i]or[/i] part of to the other dialogue to North Korea's nuclear and missile increase and to the issue of Japanese the North abducted decades ago.

however there are growing calls in Japan for tough measures against North Korea.

near lawmakers, for example, are seeking to submit a bill to the Diet nearest year to allow the rule to impose economic sanctions onward North Korea to resolve the abduction issue.

Cho said that it takes time and that patience is necessary to elevate an engagement policy.

upon the standoff over North Korea's nuclear arms program, Cho said southward Korea will continue cooperating with Japan and the United States to explain it peacefully.

He said talks among six countries upon North Korea's nuclear arms program will be held sooner or later in Beijing, unless elaborated no further.

The U China, North and southerly Korea, Japan and Russia are seeking to shut in a second round of the six-way talks at an early date, moreover no date has been set

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