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Japan and toward the south Korea on Friday renewed their melt to seek a peaceful and diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis in consequence of six-nation talks, Japanese officials said.

The couple sides reconfirmed the commitment in talks between Senior Vice Foreign Minister Tetsuro Yano and southerly Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Jae Sup

Kim also separately met with Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi.

Yano and Kim also said that cooperative efforts through Japan, South Korea and the United States to achieve a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula have been effective in the six-nation talks launched in late August in Beijing, the officials said.

In those talks, the six countries, which also include China, Russia and North Korea, agreed to continue dialogue toward the frequent objective of achieving a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, admitting the countries failed to agree forward a date and venue for the nearest round of talks.

The six countries also shared a determination to solve the crisis peacefully by the agency of dialogue and address Pyongyang's security concerns

Yano again called for southern Korea's support for Japan's efforts to interpret the issue of Japanese abducted by the agency of North Korea in the late 1970 and early 1980s

Kim showed an understanding of Japan's efforts, the officials said.

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