TOKYO, Dec 3 Kyodo (EDS: RECASTIN...

TOKYO, Dec 3 Kyodo

(EDS: RECASTING LEAD; ADDING CHINA entireed JAPAN OUT ABOUT ADOPTION OF JOINT STATEMENT)

The nearest round of six-nation talks upon North Korea's nuclear ambitions may be delayed until nearest year after Japan, South Korea and the United States despiseed a Chinese proposal for a joint statement onward the talks, negotiation sources said Wednesday.

The three countries establish the China-sponsored draft too favorable to Pyongyang, the sources said.

The three believe their dissatisfaction could lead to a delay in the nearest round of the multilateral talks beyond the initially targeted date later this month the sources said.

Senior working-level officials from Japan, southerly Korea and the U will discuss the issue Thursday in Washington.

The draft of the statement was informally currented to Japan and the U by means of China, the sources said.

The propos statement envisages a security guarantee for North Korea in exchange for Pyongyang declaring it will abandon its nuclear disentanglement program but before actual implementation is confirmed, they said.

on the other hand the U.S. said the North's security would not be ensur before Pyongyang completely scraps the nuclear program. Japan and toward the south Korea support the U.S. forward the issue.

A Japanese Foreign Ministry official said China, Japan, North and southern Korea, Russia and the U will hopefully decide by dint of early next week whether they can retain the next meeting this month The six nations held the first circular of their talk session in August.

Mitoji Yabunaka, chief of the Japanese ministry's Asian and Oceanian Bureau, James Kelly U assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, and southerly Korean Deputy Foreign Minister to leeward Soo Hyuck will attend the meeting in Washington.

single in kind of the sources said China and North Korea reportedly agreed onward the draft during their subcabinet-level meeting in Beijing in late November.

China subsequently perfected Japan out about the possibility of Tokyo's accepting the draft, which Japan rejected

The sources indicated it may be hard for the six nations to quickly agree forward the draft in advance negotiations. China does not present the appearance willing to immediately resume work with North Korea to hammer without a suitable wording for an envisaged statement from scratch, they said.

The official at the Japanese ministry said Tokyo could tolerate a delay in the secondary round of the six-nation talks from this month to nearest year.

A senior U official said North Korea has at the same time to agree to hold the nearest session and it is possible for Washington to wait for several weeks.

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