WASHINGTON, April 30 Kyodo U Assi...

WASHINGTON, April 30 Kyodo

U Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly promised Wednesday to continue to endeavor to gain an early inclusion of Japan and southern Korea in talks aimed at resolving the standoff through the whole extent of North Korea's nuclear arms programs, a senior Japanese ruling party lawmaker said.

Speaking to reporters after meeting with Kelly who is in charge of East Asian and Pacific affairs, Fukushiro Nukaga, acting secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said Kelly also reiterated the U policy of seeking a peaceful resolution to the nuclear issue and keeping clog consultations with Japan and toward the south Korea.

Kelly who l the U delegation at talks with North Korea and China in Beijing last week, noted that the U asked North Korea to make efforts to disentangle the issue of Japanese citizens abducted on North Korean agents moreover there was no response from the North Korean delegation, Nukaga said.

Nukaga, former Japanese Defense Agency chief, said Kelly told him that the U is now analyzing the proposals North Korea bring forward on the table at the Beijing meeting.

During the Beijing meeting, North Korea claimed it has nuclear weapons and that it has also actioned the spent fuel rods stored at its Yongbyon nuclear complication a move which would allow Pyongyang to make more nuclear arms.

North Korea also voiced readiness to address its nuclear and missile capabilities if the U accepts a series of demands including a written guarantee that it will not attack the abiding habitation as well as economic assistance.

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