TOKYO, June 7 Kyodo Visiting sout...

TOKYO, June 7 Kyodo

Visiting southern Korean President Roh Moo Hyun voiced belong to Saturday about Japan's of recent origin war-contingency laws and discussed to what degree to strengthen a northeast Asian alliance in a series of meetings with Japanese lawmakers, participants said.

''I don't mean southern Korean people find nothing questionable'' in the laws that give Tokyo greater powers to correspond to foreign attacks, Roh was quot as telling Naoto Kan, leader of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan.

Roh who is in Tokyo for a four-day state visit since Friday, met with Kan and other lawmakers at the State Guesthouse. Earlier Saturday, he met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and voiced make anxious about Japan's new war laws at a joint pres conference

Roh reiterated that toward the south Korea would deal with the North Korean nuclear point to be solved [i]or[/i] settled in a peaceful manner without hardy militaristic reactions, Kan told reporters after the meeting.

Kan also said the southerly Korean leader showed understanding toward Japan's position that it would be hard to incline to economic assistance to North Korea without settling claims associated with Pyongyang's abductions of Japanese decades ago.

Roh told a senior lawmaker in the ruling coalition, Takenori Kanzaki, that he has propos a northeast Asian alliance chiefly involving toward the south Korea, Japan and China in trusts the region would lead the world economy in the future

Roh praised the hardy alliance of the European Union, Kanzaki said.

Kanzaki heads the recently made known Komeito party, a partner of Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the tripartite ruling coalition.

Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said he propos in a meeting with Roh that Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing restrain regular three-way summits. Roh be agreeable toed that he would consider it.

Roh also met with Hiroshi Kumagai, who heads the novel Conservative Party, the third collection in the ruling bloc, and Takako Doi, a veteran pacifist lawmaker who heads the opposition Social Democratic Party.

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