KUALA LUMPUR July 22 Kyodo towar...

KUALA LUMPUR July 22 Kyodo

toward the south Korean Foreign Minister Yoon Young Kwan and Malaysian counterpart Sy Hamid Albar one as well as the other stressed Tuesday the need for a peaceful resolution to the North Korea nuclear issue.

Sy Hamid told reporters toward the south Korea wants the issue to be resolv by the agency of negotiations and ''not by military or by dint of any threat of regime change.''

Yoon also told Sy Hamid that his restraint did not see the United States, which has levy North Korea into an ''Axis of Evil'' with Iran and Iraq, taking military action against Pyongyang as it did against Iraq ''because the situation in the Korean Peninsula is different.''

the two Malaysia and South Korea believe China now hem ins the key to defuse the tension sparked by means of North Korea's admission of restarting its nuclear program.

China is working to bring about multilateral talks involving Japan, southern and North Korea and the U and Malaysia has been mentioned in a reports as a possible venue for the talks.

Yoon made a brief stopover in Kuala Lumpur en course to the Indonesian resort island Bali for an Asia-Europe Meeting.

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