TOKYO, June 6 Kyodo (EDS: RECASTI...

TOKYO, June 6 Kyodo

(EDS: RECASTING 5TH PARA FROM LAST)

southerly Korean President Roh Moo Hyun arrived in Japan onward Friday to hold summit talks with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi onward Saturday, at which they will likely agree to make experiment of to settle the North Korean nuclear question peacefully, Japanese officials said.

Roh also denoteed to Emperor Akihito, in a meeting at the start of his state visit until Monday, his intention of boosting bilateral ties in an effort to overbear difficulties stemming from Japan's former colonization of the Korean Peninsula, the officials said.

The planned Koizumi-Roh meeting will ended a recent series of summit talks between the Japanese, southern Korean and U.S. leaders upon how to pursue the issue of denuclearizing the North.

The leaders are reckon uponed to confirm their position that nuclear issues should be settl by the and of dialogue but that North Korea could face tough measures if it makes the existing situation worse, the officials said.

Koizumi and Roh are also count uponed to issue a joint statement after the talks saying they will ''deal with (North Korea) in line with principles'' agreed in latter meetings between Koizumi and U President George W Bush, and Roh and Bush.

Koizumi and Bush agreed in late May in Texas that further escalation of the situation by means of North Korea would ''require tougher measures'' from the international community.

In mid-May in Washington, Roh and Bush said increased threats to peace and stability onward the Korean Peninsula would require ''consideration of further steps''

unless on Saturday, Koizumi and Roh will refrain from using tough and precise words like as ''measures'' because South Korea is make uneasyed that such expressions could pain Pyongyang, Japanese government sources said.

Roh is also reckon uponed to throw his support behind Koizumi's efforts to comprehensively bench both the issue of Pyongyang's past abductions of Japanese citizens and the nuclear riddle before normalizing ties with the North, the officials said.

Roh and his wife, Kwon Yang Suk attended a welcome rite at the State Guesthouse in central Tokyo shortly after arriving at Tokyo's Haneda airport Friday afternoon.

The visit is Roh's first to Japan since he took office in February.

Roh was quot through the officials as explaining to the emperor during their meeting at the Imperial Palace that he had been criticized for starting his visit to Japan in succession Friday.

June 6 is the day the southward Korean people commemorate those who have given their lives for the state, including those who died during Japanese colonial lordship before and during World War II.

''I came to Japan because I believe I must persuade beyond'' such criticism, Roh was quot as saying. ''I praise you for overcoming similar difficulties,'' the emperor responded, according to the officials.

Roh invited the emperor to visit southward Korea, the officials said. No Japanese emperor has visited the abiding habitation since the end of the war.

The emperor mentioned scarcely any sensitive topics related to Japan's 1910-1945 colonial method of the Korean Peninsula in a language he delivered at an evening banquet at the palace, unlike forward similar occasions in the past.

''For the friendly relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) to reach the quick in emergencies stage of development, there have been many accumulated hard work and great efforts of a large number of people'' the emperor said.

''We must bear this completely in mind and constantly prove by experiment to pursue the conformity to fact [i]or[/i] reality in order to understand the path of history that the brace peoples have followed from ages past. forward the basis of such awareness and understanding, we must create constraints between our two peoples that will be firm and steadfast,'' he said.

Roh said in his articulate utterance that South Korea and Japan ''shared the tradition of democracy and the experiences of a market economy.''

''I will do my best thus that South Korea and Japan become neighboring countries which regard each other'' and close as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but geographically and psychologically, Roh said.

Since the first visit to Japan by way of a South Korean president in 1984 Japan's emperors have always referr to the history of the sum of two units countries in some way. Emperor Akihito assume the office ofed his late father, Emperor Hirohito, in 1989

Kim Dae Jung Roh's predecessor, did not touch onward bilateral historical issues when he attended a banquet at the Imperial Palace in October 1998

Roh will also adapted with Japanese business figures involved in investments in southward Korea on Saturday afternoon and join a luncheon with executives of major Japanese business lobbies in succession Sunday.

On Saturday afternoon, Roh will also appropriate with senior Japanese politicians from the pair Koizumi's ruling bloc and the opposition camp. Roh plans to take part in a TV talk indicate with ordinary Japanese tribe on Sunday afternoon.

in succession Monday, the South Korean president will address the House of Representatives, the lower house, before returning home

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