SEOUL May 11 Kyodo southern Korea...

SEOUL May 11 Kyodo

southern Korean President Roh Moo Hyun left Sunday for his first visit to the United States to discuss the lingering standoff through North Korean nuclear weapons program and as it is other issues as readjustment of the Seoul-Washington military alliance.

Roh and U President George W Bush are scheduled to suited Wednesday and adopt a joint statement reaffirming their liquefy to prevent North Korea from possessing nuclear weapons beneath any circumstances, according to presidential aides.

The brace heads of state will also agree to join forces to peacefully separate the North Korean nuclear disturbance through diplomatic means, they said.

''I will cooperate closely with President Bush forward the development of southerly Korea-U.S. relations, the peaceful resolution of the North Korean nuclear question and the promotion of bilateral economic cooperation,'' Roh said in a statement issued ahead of his departure.

''If the involved parties and the international community cooperate, the nuclear issue can be resolv peacefully. I will do my best to make my visit to the U a stepping stone to reaching in the same state [i]or[/i] condition a solution,'' he said.

The summit reach [i]or[/i] attain any place [i]or[/i] points in the wake of North Korea's modern assertion that it already possesse nuclear weapons.

Roh and U leaders are also wait fored to discuss redefining the parts in the 50-year-old South Korea-U.S. military alliance amid calls for southerly Korea to assume more responsibility for its hold defense.

He also has meetings scheduled in Washington with U Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Treasury Secretary John Snow, as well as with a number of congressional leaders.

In talks with U business leaders, Roh is look fored to try to calm investors' fears from one side of to the other tension arising from the nuclear issue.

''The greatest in quantity important fact is that our main investors are in the US'' Roh said Friday at luncheon meeting with representatives of newspapers and broadcasting companies in Seoul prior to his departure.

''The message we have to bear to them is about safety upon the peninsula. We have to suffer them know that peace and safety will continue to exist. Then, our economy will be able to display its dynamic power and vitality,'' he said.

Roh and first lady Kwon Yang Sook will travel to of the present day York, Washington and San Francisco before returning to Seoul forward Saturday.

The president will visit the strange York Stock Exchange and Silicon Valley as part of his economic diplomacy.

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