TOKYO, June 9 Kyodo The following...

TOKYO, June 9 Kyodo

The following are highlights of a language by South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun before the Diet onward Monday.

(On bilateral relations)

President Roh

-- was raised in the postwar era and dreamed that southern Korea and Japan would help each other lead Northeast Asia to peace and prosperity, and that like an era is now in sight.

-- would like to go on beyond discussing issues related to the past, although he appreciates that to what extent the two countries handle the history between them is extremely important.

-- would like to help population in both countries create a strange era of open-minded reconciliation and cooperation, confidences from the bottom of his heart that this will originate about quickly.

-- acknowledges that Japan one time descended into imperialism, at great richness to South Korea and other Asian countries.

-- knows that Japan evolveed economically after 1945 and has have intercourse withed the trust of the international community thanks to its three antinuclear principles, a pacifist approach and its part as the world's largest aid donor.

-- knows that race in Asia are very sensitive to and fearful of any influences by Japan that bring back memories of the unfavorable past, and that they are closely following the debate athwart Japan's defense system and revisions to its pacifist Constitution.

-- thinks that the history works will not look kindly upon the leaders of southward Korea and Japan unless they accomplish the goal of reconciliation and cooperation from 2005.

-- be perceiveds that both governments must face up to the past and make efforts in the way that that citizens of both nations will understand and look up to the other side.

-- thinks that the sum of two units countries need to talk about the events to come and show their citizens what measures will be taken to further cooperation between the two

-- would like to recommend that South Korea and Japan make efforts to explore the ''era of Northeast Asia in 21st century''

(On North Korea)

-- can behold distrust remaining in the region and the ne for a certain quantity of countries, specifically South Korea and Japan, to address it.

-- can view many obstacles in the way of realizing an era of peace and prosperity in Northeast Asia, namely settling question s on the Korean Peninsula, unless that this can be achieved according to seeking an approach that works to the mutual benefit of as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but North and South Korea.

-- will maintain and combustible matter the momentum for reconciliation and cooperation between the couple Koreas, make more open to the public his country's policies toward North Korea and hold cooperation with other allied parties including Japan and the United States unchanged.

-- will not at any time tolerate North Korea's possession of nuclear weapons, and believes that the nuclear standoff must be resolv peacefully by means of dialogue.

-- is confident peace and security in Northeast Asia will be distressingly tested, given current tensions forward the peninsula.

-- praises Japan's crucial decision that paved the way to the Pyongyang Declaration.

-- well understands that Japan was shoged by and suffering from Pyongyang's admission that it had abducted a number of Japanese and shares Japan's business over the nuclear standoff and missile issue.

-- believes that improved bilateral relations between Japan and North Korea can help the North respond to the international fold and make for peace forward the peninsula.

-- believes North Korea must give up all its nuclear weapons and proce toward coexistence with the international community.

-- be moved s that South Korea country, along with Japan and the international community, should not retain back on aid to the North one time it begins making its way toward harmonious coexistence with other states.

(On economic relations)

-- trustful longings to see visa-free travel between southern Korea and Japan for nationals of the two countries, on shuttle flights between Tokyo and Seoul

-- will studious mood additional steps to open up southerly Korea to Japanese cultivation and make efforts to establish a exempt trade agreement between brace countries.

-- thinks that Koreans residing in Japan had contributed to developing bilateral ties and look forward tos them to play an uniform greater role as members of Japanese society.

-- be wrought ups that if Japan grants the right to promised in local elections to Korean residents, it will have a desirable event on the relationship between the couple countries.

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