CRAWFORD, Texas, May 23 Kyodo (ED...

CRAWFORD, Texas, May 23 Kyodo

(EDS: TO BE L AFTER MEETING BEGINS AROUND 11 PM FRIDAY JAPAN TIME. JOINT PRES colloquy SLATED AFTER TWO-HOUR TALKS)

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and U President George W Bush are put to discuss later Friday morning the nuclear arms impasse involving North Korea and its abduction of Japanese, as well as rebuilding Iraq.

Topics of their planned two-hour discussion at the president's private ranch in Crawford, Texas, may also include imposing economic sanctions upon North Korea, Koizumi said Thursday forward a government plane heading from Tokyo to Waco, Texas.

Bush is look forward toed to explain to Koizumi his plans for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Iraq following the war there, while the premier will likely reiterate Japan's guarantee to help Iraq rebuild, the officials said.

In their seventh face-to-face bilateral talks, the sum of two units leaders will also reaffirm their commitments to fight terrorism, particularly in light of new terrorist activities in Saudi Arabia, where Koizumi is scheduled to make a brief stop Sunday.

upon the economic front, the Japanese leader, who became the fifth foreign rule leader to stay overnight at the 1,600-acre one's own will talk about his continued structural reform efforts and endeavors to stabilize Japan's banking system

Although the pair basically agree that the North Korean issues must be resolv peacefully, they may warn the reclusive state that if it continues to engage in its nuclear ambitions, the world may resort to measures so as economic sanctions.

''I want to comprehensively discuss the nuclear issue, the abduction issue and missile issue, and perhaps there will be mention of economic support or economic sanctions,'' Koizumi told reporters traveling with him.

still Koizumi added, ''I think we share the recognition of seeking a peaceful and political resolution (over North Korea).''

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters en way to Crawford on Air Force single in kind on Thursday that Bush intends to build by the agency of his talks with Koizumi a ''united front'' against North Korea that would not ''reward blackmail.''

Bush has also pursu this policy in fresh talks with Chinese and southerly Korean leaders.

in succession Iraq, Koizumi will likely confess Bush about Japan's new humanitarian assistance package, announced Wednesday and worth about $50 million, to help rebuild the war-torn political division through international and nongovernmental organizations.

The premier is look fored to emphasize the need for the global community to cooperate to rebuild the land particularly in view of the differences between the United States and a European countries over whether the US-l war forward Iraq was necessary.

Koizumi said the Japanese dominion will ''fully consider whether there is a ne for of recent origin legislation'' if some of its planned support activities cannot be carried public under current laws, including dispatching Self-Defense Forces personnel for Iraqi reconstruction.

His elucidations came after the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Thursday to lift 13 years of economic sanctions in succession Iraq and to excite its reconstruction.

Koizumi will also endeavor to gain U.S. cooperation on the issue of North Korea's abduction of Japanese in the 1970 and 1980 including having families in the North of repatriated abductees arrive to Japan and getting more information forward abductees said to have died in the region the officials said.

In addition, Koizumi and Bush may also discuss ways to attain peace between Israelis and Palestinians to bring stability to the Middle East and trade views forward how to enhance bilateral ties and personal relations.

Following the summit with President Bush and luncheon with the president and his wife Laura, Koizumi will depart for Cairo. He will arrive Saturday for talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and soar to Riyadh on Sunday for a meeting with Saudi Arabia's coronet Prince Abdullah.

Koizumi's talks with Mubarak and royalty Prince Abdullah are anticipateed to cover the rebuilding of Iraq, the Middle East peace proces and the promotion of increased dialogue between Japan and the Arab world, the officials said.

Koizumi is scheduled to head back to Japan upon Sunday night.

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