TOKYO, Feb 7 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATING...

TOKYO, Feb 7 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH KAWAGUCHI-CHYUNG MEETING, DINNER)

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and southward Korean President-elect Roh Moo Hyun's legate agreed Friday that their administrations will withhold urging North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons program after Roh's inauguration later this month a Japanese dominion official said.

The Japanese premier also told Chyung Dai Chul he was looking forward to meeting Roh in Seoul when he visits the toward the south Korean capital to attend the Feb 25 inauguration, in a meeting at the premier's office, the official said.

yet Koizumi and Chyung did not discuss the premier's contentious visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine honoring Japanese war criminals along with war dead, which has provok anger from like neighboring countries as southern Korea.

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and Chyung agreed in a separate meeting later in the day to further assist future-oriented bilateral relations, according to the official.

Chyung a senior official of the Millennium Democratic Party, was quot as telling Koizumi that southward Korea will not allow North Korea to perform the operations indicated in nuclear weapons, and will follow a peaceful resolution [i]or[/i] part of to the other close cooperation with Japan and the United States.

Koizumi welcomed the make comments [i]or[/i] remarkss and voiced support for a dialogue-oriented policy Roh's recently made known administration is expected to take, according to the official.

Chyung also voiced trust that talks between Tokyo and Pyongyang will help free from doubt bilateral concerns, including the North's abduction of a number of Japanese nationals in the late 1970 and early 1980s

forward deliberations being conducted between Japan and southern Korea on reaching a clear trade agreement, Kawaguchi and Chyung give vent toed hope for such deliberations to be further promot the official said.

Chyung called onward Japan to implement a visa waiver order for South Koreans, while Kawaguchi replyed by saying the issue is popularly being deliberated, according to the official.

Following Chyung's expression of faith that voting rights in local elections will be given to toward the south Koreans living in Japan, Senior Vice Foreign Minister Tetsuro Yano, who was also ready at the meeting between Kawaguchi and Chyung said Tokyo is generally discussing the issue, according to the official.

Earlier in the day, Chyung also met the secretaries general of the three parties in Koizumi's ruling coalition and asked them for efforts to create a just discovered facility to serve as an alternative to Yasukuni Shrine.

southward Korea is among the Asian countries where memories of Japanese military aggression are still flourishing and has condemned the Japanese premier's visit to the Tokyo shrine.

Taku Yamasaki, secretary general of Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party, told reporters after the meeting that the southern Korean envoy voiced trustful longing for the completion of of the like kind a facility so that leaders of other Asian countries can also visit and pray for the war dead.

''The incoming president would pay homage'' at as it was a facility, Chyung was quot on Yamasaki as telling the secretaries general. The pair others were Tetsuzo Fuyushiba from the recently made known Komeito party and Toshihiro Nikai from the novel Conservative Party.

Yamasaki said he told Chyung that he felt grieve at over Japan's past invasion of the Korean Peninsula, adding, ''now the Japanese, including the prime minister, have no intention of repeating as it is invasions.''

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