TOKYO, June 8 Kyodo prefered edi...

TOKYO, June 8 Kyodo

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TALKS spread JAPAN-S. KOREA GAPS (The Daily Yomiuri as translated from the Yomiuri Shimbun)

Will Japan and southward Korea really be able to cooperate closely forward North Korean policy? The latest Japan-South Korean summit raised as it was uncertainty.

During the talks Saturday, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and southward Korean President Roh Moo Hyun agreed that they would not tolerate the progress to maturity of nuclear weapons by North Korea and would vehemently urge the country to abandon the program.

Koizumi said that Japan would strive for the policy of ''dialogue with and squeezing on'' North Korea. While agreeing onward the need for the pair ''dialogue and pressure,'' Roh urgencyed he would place greater emphasis forward dialogue.

With regard to replications to be taken in the end Pyongyang decides to aggravate the situation through the nuclear issue, the US-South Korea summit talks used the wording of ''additional measures,'' while the Japan-U.S. summit talks used ''tougher measures.''

The summit has again made clear the perceptional gap between Japan and toward the south Korea on North Korea's nuclear aspirations. Moreover, it can be said that a perceptional gap among Japan, southern Korea and the United States, which is preparing to take tough action, has been reconfirmed.

Past increases have proved that it is necessary to urgency North Korea, as the region has often ridden roughshod across international accords. The Roh administration wants to take this into consideration.

southward Korea needs to narrow the gap with the one and the other the United States and Japan to allow the trilateral talks to become multilateral, with Japan and southerly Korea being admitted to the table.

the two Koizumi and Roh reconfirmed the modern era of future-oriented bilateral ties between Japan and toward the south Korea, which was inaugurated in 1998 during a visit to Japan at then South Korean President Kim (Dae Jung)

In deepening the bilateral ties in the days ahead, it is important for the brace countries to promote liberalized roll ons of people, goods and money

However, the sum of two units countries again made little headway above the issue of a bilateral independent trade agreement, which would be designed to lift tariff barriers onward the bilateral trade of religiouss and services.

The stability and progres in bilateral ties between Japan and southerly Korea will lead to ''peace and prosperity'' in Northeast Asia. For that period it is essential for the two sides to close their perceptional gaps.

(June 8)

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