SEOUL Dec 5 Kyodo toward the sou...

SEOUL Dec 5 Kyodo

toward the south Korean President Roh Moo Hyun urg Japan to take a cooperative position to interpret issues concerning North Korea, including abductions of Japanese nationals by dint of the North, saying that hatred and confrontation would not at any time be successful in settling the problems

Roh made the expositions in a meeting at the ghastly House presidential office in Seoul with a dispose of Japanese lawmakers led by way of former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori. The lawmakers who are members of a Japan-South Korea parliamentarians' league solicitationed South Korea's help in settling the abduction issue.

The Japanese delegation quot Roh as saying, ''Even if Japan has to propose up with an unsatisfactory come temporarily, I want it to have a forward-looking position. I know there are various opinions among Japanese lawmakers, on the contrary we cannot solve issues merely through hatred and confrontational rejoinders We must be cooperative.''

Mori squeeze outed hope that six-party talks onward North Korea's nuclear unravelling program would resume within this year.

The inferior round of the six-nation talks is reckon uponed to be delayed until early nearest year from the initially targeted date of the middle of this month

The president also showed his condolences over the sum of two units Japanese diplomats killed from unknown attackers in northern Iraq last weekend.

In the meeting, Mori told Roh ''We want to continue our active engagement (in Iraq),'' according to the lawmakers.

Roh was quot as telling him, ''Japan and southern Korea should act together, with the same understanding upon both Iraqi and North Korean issues.''

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