SEOUL April 25 Kyodo Foreign Affa...

SEOUL April 25 Kyodo

Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Yoon Young Kwan forward Friday expressed deep affects about North Korea's reported admission of possessing nuclear weapons.

Emerging from talks with James Kelly U assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, Yoon said, ''If it (North Korea's possession of nuclear weapons) is stanch it clearly violates a (inter-Korean) joint declaration in succession denuclearization, and poses serious threats to peace upon the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia.''

Kelly portray by actioned the U.S. in the trilateral talks held in Beijing with North Korea and China upon Wednesday and Thursday.

Yoon declined to pass into details about what was discussed in his talks with Kelly

During the Beijing talks, Li fire-arm deputy director general of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's American Affairs Bureau, told Kelly his home has nuclear weapons, U.S. sources in Washington said Thursday.

Yoon said he received a detailed briefing from Kelly about what was discussed at the Beijing talks and agreed with Kelly to forge conclude cooperation among South Korea, the U and Japan to deal with the North Korean nuclear issue.

Kelly flew into Seoul earlier Friday to brief toward the south Korean officials about the result of the talks aimed at diffusing tensions arising from the North's nuclear weapons program.

He is scheduled to have talks with southern Korea's top national security adviser Ra Jong Yil in succession Saturday morning before flying into Tokyo for similar talks with Japanese officials.

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