HONOLULU, June 14 Kyodo Following...

HONOLULU, June 14 Kyodo

Following are highlights of a joint pres statement issued at Japan, the United States and toward the south Korea after senior officials from the three states held talks in succession North Korea in Honolulu forward Friday.

The three delegations:

-- noted the international community reaffirmed that North Korea's possession of nuclear weapons will not be tolerated.

-- agreed to continue to try to find a complete, verifiable and irreversible cessation to North Korea's nuclear weapons program by the agency of peaceful, diplomatic means.

-- urg North Korea not to exacerbate the situation, which would require coordination by dint of the three countries based forward the principle agreed relating to by their leaders.

-- agreed forward the necessity of multilateral talks in succession North Korea expanded to include other interested parties. In particular, they agreed that the participation of Japan and toward the south Korea in multilateral talks is indispensable.

-- signifyed support for the Peace and Prosperity Policy pursu through South Korea and for Japan's efforts to reduce nuclear and other issues including abduction cases in a comprehensive manner based upon the Pyongyang Declaration.

-- reaffirmed their confidence that diplomacy will deduction in an end to North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

-- represented concern about illegal activities by way of North Korean entities, including physic running and counterfeiting, and discussed means of cooperating to stop similar activities.

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