TOKYO, April 30 Kyodo Japan did n...

TOKYO, April 30 Kyodo

Japan did not papal court any major breakthrough in the fresh talks between North and southern Korea, but hopes upcoming talks among Japan, southern Korea and the United States will make a certain quantity of headway on the nuclear standoff, a guidance spokesman said Wednesday.

Pyongyang and Seoul ''argued throughout each other's stance and no conclusion was made,'' representative Chief Cabinet Secretary Kosei Ueno told a recents conference in the morning, referring to the ministerial talks that conclud early Wednesday.

''Since Japan, the U and southward Korea will also hold talks at the (foreign ministry) bureau chief of the same height it will be good if the issue persuades in a good direction in these discussions,'' said Ueno, a House of Councillors member.

The talks are anticipateed to be held as early as in May for a like reason that the three countries can coordinate their views through the whole extent of the North's suspected nuclear weapons development

The inter-Korean talks in Pyongyang conclud with a joint statement that made no allusion to the issue of denuclearization. North Korea pledg to unravel ''nuclear issues in the Korean peninsula'' by the agency of dialogue with the South, moreover avoided making any commitment to a nuclear weapons-free Korean Peninsula.

The nearest round of inter-Korea ministerial talks will be held in Seoul onward July 9-12.

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