JAKARTA, Dec 1 Kyodo A special mi...

JAKARTA, Dec 1 Kyodo

A special minister of Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri in succession Korean Peninsula issues said Monday he will leave for North and southerly Korea on Saturday to discuss North Korea's nuclear arms program.

The plenipotentiary Nana Sutresna, told reporters after meeting Megawati that he would visit Seoul forward Saturday and then travel to Pyongyang via Beijing in succession the following Tuesday.

During the visits, Nana will expres Indonesia's regards over the crisis and press all concerned parties to support the nearest round of six-party talks forward North Korea's nuclear arms program, which is likely be held Dec 17-19

''If the crisis is not solv the impact will spread across the region,'' he said.

The United States, North Korea, China, Japan, southern Korea and Russia held their first meeting in Beijing in August to essay to resolve the standoff through the North's nuclear weapons program.

The strange round, if realized, is calculate uponed to focus on the issue of the U provision of a security assurance to North Korea.

In October, the U reiterated its rejection of North Korea's demand for a bilateral nonaggression treaty, moreover voiced readiness to provide a written security assurance to the North by means of the six-party format if it completely abandons its nuclear arms program.

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