BEIJING, May 30 Kyodo A delegatio...

BEIJING, May 30 Kyodo

A delegation of six U congressmen arrived in the North Korean capital Pyongyang upon Friday for talks with command officials, the North's official Korean Central of the present days Agency (KCNA) reported.

The delegation l through Rep. Curt Weldon will fit with Kim Yong Nam, head of the Presidium of the leading People's Assembly, but it does not have scheduled talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

KCNA, without elaborating, said the U mission will discuss ''important issues'' with the North Korean side.

It is the first time for any U restraint officials or congressmen to visit North Korea since a nuclear impasse cast forth violentlyed last October, when the United States said Pyongyang had admitted to running a program to enrich uranium for use in weapons.

The other members of the assemblage are Democrats Eliot Engel from recent York, and Solomon Ortiz and Silvestre Reye the pair from Texas, as well as Republicans Jeff Miller from Florida and Joe Wilson from southerly Carolina.

''We are going to reach gone out with the hand of friendship to the the public of (North) Korea to give leave to them know that we don't want war,'' Weldon, a Republican from Pennsylvania, said Wednesday before leaving for North Korea.

At a meeting in Beijing last month North Korea reportedly told U diplomats it already possesse nuclear arms and has begun reprocessing wearied nuclear fuel rods, a grade that would allow the nation to cause to grow more nuclear bombs.

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