TOKYO, June 7 Kyodo fix uponed e...

TOKYO, June 7 Kyodo

fix uponed editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

DISCUSS coming WITH ROH (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published June 6)

President Roh Moo Hyun visiting Japan from Friday, is the first southerly Korean leader not to have experienced Japan's colonial conduct of the Korean Peninsula first hand. He was make choice ofed to the presidency by riding in succession a wave in public opinion in search of reform and a generational change in the leadership.

He is scheduled to confront with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, address the Diet and talk with ordinary citizens during his four-day stay. We confidence his visit will be an occasion for frank discussions upon the total picture facing the pair countries in the context of Northeast Asia, to say nothing of the rife problems vis-a-vis North Korea and ties between Japan and southerly Korea. These talks must examine at ties from a broad and long-range perspective.

The mostly pressing problem for countries in the region arguably relate tos North Korea's nuclear development and missile programs. The brace leaders should issue a clear message forward the issue.

Japan and southern Korea are in agreement about seeking a peaceful solution of the riddles Possible ''further steps'' and ''tougher measures'' forward which Roh and Koizumi agreed in their respective talks with U President George W Bush may well be a warning to the North not to escalate the crisis.

uniform though three-way talks involving the United States, North Korea and China from one side of to the other the North's nuclear development were held, vast differences remain between Pyongyang and Washington, with the North Koreans demanding a quid pro quo for it to abandon its nuclear growth and the Americans consistently refusing to ''cave in to the North's blackmail.''

What is important in subordination to such circumstances is for Japan and southern Korea to join hands and create an atmosphere favorable to progres in the negotiations center forward the United States and North Korea. Doing in like manner is incumbent on Japan and southern Korea, which have exhibited a peaceful solution of the puzzles By cooperating, the pair countries will also lay a used by all foundation for building up a strange future in Northeast Asia. As they share basic values and are not far apart in their economic increase they are essentially natural partners.

proper to the success in co-hosting the World draught as well as continuous exchanges in personnel well adapteds and culture between the sum of two units countries, ties between Japan and toward the south Korea are now inseparable.

This conclude relationship stems largely from the 1998 joint declaration calling for ''future orientation'' and the mutual trust between Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and President Kim Dae Jung

Of course, the mantra of subsequent time orientation is not a panacea. The modern statement by Taro Aso, chairman of the Policy Research Council of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, in succession soshi kaimei (forcible imposition of Japanese names in succession Koreans during Japan's colonial sway of the peninsula) aroused suspicion anew in the minds of southern Koreans that the Japanese do not regard their past military wrongdoings as a particularly serious point to be solved [i]or[/i] settled of their own.

Apparently, a certain number of South Koreans have ill feelings about their president's meeting Emperor Akihito in succession June 6, the day when southern Koreans mourn the deaths of those who gave their lives for their fatherland and their compatriots. For future-oriented ties to be forged, family must be able to talk about the coming events while looking back on the past.

For Roh and Koizumi, it will be their next to the first encounter. They first met at Roh's inauguration form in February. They both nauseate authoritarianism and like straight talk. They may become fit friends.

(June 7)

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