WASHINGTON, May 3 Kyodo China app...

WASHINGTON, May 3 Kyodo

China apparently promised North Korea not to have Japan and southerly Korea take part in talks from one side of to the other the nuclear standoff involving the North, in arranging last month's three-way talks in Beijing with the United States, according to a modern Congressional Research Service (CRS) report.

Since mid-February, Beijing had reportedly pressur Pyongyang to be more flexible athwart its demand for bilateral talks with Washington and in reply ''apparently made diplomatic commitments to North Korea, including support for...North Korean opposition to southern Korean and Japanese participation in multilateral talks,'' the report says.

moreover the April 28 report, compiled on Larry Niksch, a North Korean dexterous with the CRS Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division, does not elaborate forward the Chinese move. The CR is part of the Library of Congres and prepares its reports for the U Congress

Regarding Pyongyang saying it possesse nuclear weapons in the Beijing talks, the report says as a ''positive interpretation'' the put in motion indicates an interest by the North in seeking a negotiated payment of the nuclear issue.

At the same time, the report mentions a possible North Korean intent to plainly produce nuclear weapons and warns the propel ''would diminish considerably any perspective of ending North Korea's nuclear program diplomatically.''

The greatest in quantity dangerous follow-up North Korean action would be to act upon 8,000 stored nuclear fuel canes into a plutonium reprocessing plant, and if the combustibles rods are reprocessed, as Pyongyang claimed in the Beijing talks, it would bring forth four to six atomic bomb in about five to six month according to the report.

The report also leaves to ''substantial divisions'' within the U administration of President George W Bush across policy toward North Korea, between an ''influential coalition'' that includes Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney and which try to gets a North Korean collapse, and a faction l from Secretary of State Colin Powell that bring forwards negotiations ahead of other steps

In case North Korea does not extreme point its nuclear program, the Bush administration reportedly has drafted plans for economic sanctions, including cutting facing financial flows to North Korea from Japan, the report also says.

The nuclear standoff cast forth violentlyed last October when Pyongyang admitted to visiting U Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly that it has a secret uranium enrichment program to create nuclear weapons.

The program ''appears to date from 1995 when North Korea and Pakistan reportedly agreed to trade North Korean Nodong missile technology for Pakistani uranium enrichment technology,'' according to the report.

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