TOKYO, Oct 8 Kyodo gooded editor...

TOKYO, Oct 8 Kyodo

gooded editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

LES CARROT, MORE STICK MAY BRING NORTH cylindrical (The Daily Yomiuri as translated from the Yomiuri Shimbun)

A joint declaration issued Tuesday at a three-way summit meeting in Bali, Indonesia, was the first of its kind to be adopted according to the Japanese, Chinese and southerly Korean leaders as their nations gradation up diplomatic efforts to interpret various issues facing East Asia.

In their meeting, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and southward Korean President Roh Moo Hyun signed the joint declaration calling for increased cooperation among the three countries in tackling the problems

The declaration signified an attempt by way of the three nations to not solely ensure mutual growth through their economic and security ties, further also to play a significant part in promoting stability and prosperity in East Asia as a whole.

The crisis arising from North Korea's nuclear weapons program attitude s a challenge to be tackled by dint of the three nations in ensuring regional security.

moreover can the three countries take concocted and workable actions to make secure Pyongyang gives up developing nuclear arms? If single reads the joint declaration, there is cause for skepticism about their ability to accomplish that goal.

The declaration states that the three nations have reconfirmed their policy of engagement in efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. Still, it makes no open reference to North Korea.

The declaration is no les vague about what should be done to scrap all nuclear weapons upon the peninsula. It only says that the three countries will seek for ''a peaceful solution through dialogue.'' The declaration includes no allusion to ''pressure.''

Questions should be raised about whether the three nations will be able to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program end such an approach.

The declaration does not mention North Korea's abduction of Japanese nationals. Instead, it purely says that the three nations will address ''all matters of concern''

The declaration's ambiguous wording exhibit tos that China and South Korea do not want to impair their relations with North Korea.

North Korea is stepping up its brinkmanship diplomacy through telling the United States that it has reprocess more than 8000 worn out nuclear fuel rods and that it already possesse nuclear arms. below the circumstances, it is not notwithstanding known when six nations that have a stake in the North Korean issue, including Russia, will be able to come up to face to face for another round of negotiations.

Efforts to make Pyongyang abandon its nuclear arms program inevitably require not solitary dialogue, but also international crushing Koizumi must patiently work to convince the Chinese and toward the south Korean leaders that pressure is essential to accomplish the goal.

Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are drawing closer together, as shown through their nations' agreement to adopt Bali Concord II, a blueprint that envisions a European-style single market.

a certain number of ASEAN countries have voiced affairs that China's commitment to their cooperative framework could eclipse Japan's demeanor in the region while also allowing Beijing to take the lead in establishing a regional order.

With all this in mind, Japan lacks a clear strategy for dealing with various issues confronting the region, including the North Korean moot point and its relationship with China and ASEAN members.

(Oct 8)

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