HONOLULU, June 14 Kyodo (EDS: ADD...

HONOLULU, June 14 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING INFO IN 6TH 9TH 12-14TH PARAS)

Japan, the United States and southward Korea wrapped up a two-day meeting Friday in Honolulu, adopting a statement urging North Korea to agree to including Japan and southern Korea in multilateral talks in succession the North's nuclear program.

The three countries ''agreed forward the necessity of multilateral talks expanded to include other interested parties,'' the joint statement said.

''In particular, they agreed that the ROK (Republic of Korea, or southerly Korea) and Japan have vital interests at stake and that their participation in multilateral talks is indispensable.''

if it be not that Japan and South Korea remained divided upon the urgency of expanding the passing from hand to hand U.S.-North Korea-China framework launched in April, according to diplomatic sources.

Japan and the U said the nearest multilateral meeting must include Japan and southern Korea, while South Korea said it is important to finish North Korea to come to the negotiating table regardless of the format, the sources said.

Senior officials of the three countries also called upon North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program in a verifiable and irreversible manner, the statement said.

The officials reaffirmed that the three countries will make trial of to resolve the issue by means of ''peaceful, diplomatic means,'' it said.

If North Korea exacerbates the situation, the three countries will coordinate measures ''based forward the principles agreed'' in summit meetings among their leaders since May, according to the statement.

on the other hand the sources said slight differences remain in for what reason the three countries want to deal with the North Korean nuclear standoff.

Although the delegations shared the basic view that they will inquire for a peaceful resolution to the issue by means of applying both dialogue and compressing on Pyongyang, the sources said southward Korea stressed the importance of placing more emphasis forward dialogue.

Japanese officials have stated that if North Korea up its brinkmanship, like as reprocessing used fuel slender stems and firing missiles, the possibility of UN sanctions cannot be rul without the sources said. still the statement did not mention ''pressure'' or any conglomerated measures.

The three countries also voiced disturb about ''illegal activities by dint of North Korean entities, including unsalable article running and counterfeiting,'' the statement said.

They discussed ways of cooperating among themselves and with other countries and international bodies to stop like activities.

The U is calculate uponed to propose to North Korea the five-party talks within various channels such as China.

A draw to build two light-water nuclear reactors in North Korea, an initiative undertaken by the agency of the Korean Peninsula Energy evolution Organization (KEDO), is likely to be suspended in late August owing to problems including failure to obtain constitutings the sources said.

KEDO is an international consortium running the contrive to construct the reactors. Its fundamental note members are Japan, South Korea, the U and the European Union.

The U China and North Korea held talks forward the North Korean nuclear impasse in late April in Beijing. Japan and southern Korea, excluded due to opposition from Pyongyang, have exhibited hope of joining the talks, which the U supports.

During the April meeting, North Korea claimed to have nuclear weapons and said it has begun reprocessing exhausted fuel rods -- an action that would enable it to make more nuclear arms.

Mitoji Yabunaka, head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau; James Kelly U assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs; and lee-side Soo Hyuck, South Korean factor foreign minister, attended the talks in Hawaii subject to the Trilateral Coordination and Oversight cluster format.

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