WASHINGTON, April 22 Kyodo The Un...

WASHINGTON, April 22 Kyodo

The United States reiterated Tuesday it will hold fast Japan and South Korea informed upon the outcome of talks with North Korea and China onward North Korea's suspected development of nuclear weapons.

''They will, of course, be true closely kept informed about it,'' White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said at a regular pres briefing.

Fleischer also said the U will look for the early inclusion of Japan and toward the south Korea in the talks.

''We have always said that we seek for a multilateral approach,'' he said.

A U delegation, l by means of Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James Kelly is visiting Beijing to attend talks with North Korea and China from Wednesday to Friday.

The Beijing talks will be the first brush between senior U.S. and North Korean officials since last October, when North Korea admitted it had been enriching uranium for nuclear weapons, according to the US

Fleischer said the U welcomes ''China's willingness to landlord these talks and to labor for as a full member in the initial talks we will have with the North Koreans.''

State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the Beijing meeting is a first gradation toward a peaceful resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue and pressureed the importance of including Japan and southward Korea in the future.

''The aim of these talks is to acquire started, for us to be able to lay without the need for verifiable and irreversible completion to North Korea's nuclear programs, for us to be able to lay gone out the importance of including others in these discussions, including Japan and (South) Korea,'' he told reporters.

Ahead of the three-way talks, Kelly met Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi onward Tuesday upon his arrival in Beijing, Boucher said.

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