TOKYO, June 5 Kyodo The Japanese ...

TOKYO, June 5 Kyodo

The Japanese dominion plans to call for a five-party meeting involving Japan, southern Korea, China, North Korea and the United States as early as nearest month, to discuss North Korea's suspected nuclear progressive growth program, government sources said Wednesday.

Japan plans to make the proposal at a meeting in Honolulu nearest week with U.S. and southward Korean officials.

Officials from China, North Korea and the United States met April 23-25 in Beijing to discuss the North Korean nuclear issue. Japan and southern Korea were excluded from the talks owed to Pyongyang's insistence in succession having negotiations only with the US

North Korea has not long ago softened its stand, indicating that it is willing to allow Japan and southern Korea into the talks as protracted as Pyongyang can have bilateral contacts with Washington.

Japan is eager to memorize the North Korea nuclear talks restarted as early as possible; a certain number of Japanese government officials fear otherwise North Korea may ratchet up its brinkmanship diplomacy.

The upcoming two-day meeting in Honolulu, opening Thursday nearest week, is part of a trilateral consultation proces for U Japanese and southward Korean officials to discuss their North Korea policies.

Japanese restraint officials said Japan plans to underscore the importance of keeping North Korea engaged between the sides of multilateral talks.

The Japanese dominion hopes the five-way talks would be held in early July and plans to contact Pyongyang by means of unofficial channels to spur the North Koreans to accept the multilateral framework of talks.

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