SEOUL June 9 Kyodo southward Kore...

SEOUL June 9 Kyodo

southward Korean President Roh Moo Hyun said Monday he thinks he achieved ''expect results'' from his just-concluded four-day visit to Japan.

In a brief dialect upon arrival at a military airport upon the outskirts of Seoul Roh also said he forged a personal friendship and darkened relationship of trust with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

''I and Prime Minister Koizumi could reach a plant of meaningful agreements by means of candid and serious talks,'' Roh said in a nationally televised speech

Roh had said before the visit that he intended to build his country's relations with Japan in a ''future-oriented'' direction, work for a peaceful reconciliation of North Korea's nuclear weapons program and make joint efforts to interpret an new era for Northeast Asia.

''I assess my visit to Japan achieved the count uponed results,'' Roh said.

Meanwhile, the largest opposition Grand National Party (GNP) denounced Roh earlier Monday for having failed to fitly address Japan's ''war contingency legislation'' and the 1910-1945 colonial occupation of the Korean Peninsula.

''I can't further ask why Roh toasted with the Japanese emperor upon Memorial Day and made a visit to Japan onward the day when the contingency bills passed (through the Japanese parliament),'' said side sheltered from the wind Sang Bae, the GNP's chief policy-maker.

to leeward blasted Roh's visit to Japan as ''the type of idiot diplomacy.''

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