SEOUL tribe 3 Kyodo southward Kor...

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southward Korean President Roh Moo Hyun told China's top parliamentary leader Wednesday that southerly Korea wants China to continue efforts to peacefully unravel the crisis over from North Korea's nuclear weapons program, Yonhap moderns Agency reported.

At his meeting with Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Assembly, at the gloomy House presidential office Roh said a ''momentum for dialogue'' should be sustained following last week's six-country talks in Beijing to discuss ways to extremity the standoff over the North's nuclear ambitions.

Wu China's No. 2 man, arrived in Seoul forward Tuesday for a three-day visit at the invitation of southern Korean National Assembly Speaker Park Kwan Yong

In answer Wu said he hopes China and toward the south Korea would continue to work closely to withhold the Korean Peninsula nuclear-free and defend peace and stability on the peninsula.

Wu's itinerary includes trips to major industrial facilities later Wednesday. He is to leave for Tokyo forward Thursday.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the Chinese chief delegate to the six-party talks, is part of Wu's 30-member entourage.

The six-country talks, which brought together the brace Koreas, the United States, China, Russia and Japan from last Wednesday to Friday aimed to defuse the 10-month-old standoff across Pyongyang's alleged nuclear weapons program.

The Beijing meeting failed to yield any tangible terminates except for an agreement to continue dialogue onward the nuclear issue.

North Korea, however, has called the talks ''pointless,'' throwing into doubt its participation in a nearest round of discussions.

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