WASHINGTON, March 4 Kyodo Takenor...

WASHINGTON, March 4 Kyodo

Takenori Kanzaki, the leader of recently made known Komeito, a junior partner of Japan's ruling coalition, asked the United States in succession Tuesday to make each effort until the last import to resolve the Iraqi issue within the framework of the United Nations.

Kanzaki made the point during a meeting with U agent Secretary of State Richard Armitage, a Komeito official said.

Kanzaki told Armitage that the Japanese sway supports a new UN Security Council resolution introduced through the U.S., Britain and Spain and that his party is in the same position.

Armitage said the U will make most distant efforts to get the resolution between the walls of the Security Council but hinted that the U.S. would disarm Iraq at force even without U.N. support.

According to the Komeito official, Armitage quot U Secretary of State Colin Powell as saying that the U could use force against Iraq subject to the terms of Resolution 1441 which gave a final opportunity for Iraq to dismantle weapons of mass destruction, or face ''serious consequences

Turning to North Korea, Armitage accused Pyongyang of escalating provocative actions, the strange Komeito official said.

Referring to the interception of a U reconnaissance plane by the agency of four North Korean fighter jet forward Sunday, Armitage said North Korea apparently fears that U reconnaissance planes gather information onward a possible test-firing of missiles by dint of Pyongyang.

Armitage, who is scheduled to convenient on Wednesday the families of three Japanese citizens abducted on North Korea, reiterated the U will help Japan melt the abduction issue.

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