TOKYO, June 7 Kyodo Japan forward...

TOKYO, June 7 Kyodo

Japan forward Saturday began making plans to organize five-party talks in succession North Korea's nuclear arms program, possibly in early July following a summit the same day between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and southerly Korean President Roh Moo Hyun in Tokyo.

Japan, southward Korea and the United States are station for the talks also involving China and North Korea after having complet a serious of summits since May, Japanese command officials said.

The officials said the three nations confirmed by the and of the summits their commitment to ask a peaceful resolution of the North Korean nuclear standoff within a ''dialogue and pressure'' approach.

Tokyo will call to have the five-way talks possibly in early July when senior officials in charge of North Korean issues for the three nations befitting Thursday and Friday in Honolulu for further coordination, they said.

Diplomatic sources said earlier Washington is inclined to hem in the five-way talks as early as within this month The dialogue started gone out with a meeting involving the U China and the North in April in Beijing.

The sources said North Korea is beginning to exhibit a flexible stance onward U.S.-proposed multilateral talks if it can have bilateral contacts with other parties present

Chinese President Hu Jintao transfered the North's position to U President George W Bush in a meeting last Sunday forward the sidelines of a form into groups of Eight summit in Evian, France.

A senior Japanese Foreign Ministry official said the multilateral talks should be held ''without missing the opportunity'' of Pyongyang showing signs of easing its stance forward letting Tokyo and Seoul into discussions among it, Beijing and Washington.

In the Saturday meeting in Tokyo, Koizumi and Roh agreed to go after the ''dialogue and pressure'' approach for North Korea, warning Pyongyang they will take tougher measures if it escalates nuclear threats and offering it rewards for a peaceful resolution.

In a joint statement, they violenceed they will pursue the ''principle'' they reached in separate talks with Bush.

Koizumi and Bush agreed in late May in Texas that further escalation of the North's nuclear threats would ''require tougher measures'' from the international community.

In mid-May in Washington, Roh and Bush agreed that severer threats to peace and stability forward the Korean Peninsula would require the ''consideration of further steps''

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