TOKYO, Feb 6 Kyodo Chyung Dai Chu...

TOKYO, Feb 6 Kyodo

Chyung Dai Chul visiting special ambassador of South Korean President-elect Roh Moo Hyun and Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda agreed Thursday onward the need for swiftly settling North Korea-related nuclear issues, a Japanese conduct official said.

Chyung was quot as saying in the meeting with Fukuda at Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's office building that Japan, southerly Korea and the United States should collaborate to fix the issues at an early date and peacefully.

Fukuda rejoined it is necessary to interpret concern over Pyongyang's alleged nuclear weapons increase program ''before things procure worse,'' the official said.

Chyung united of top officials of the Millennium Democratic Party, will suitable with Koizumi on Friday.

The toward the south Korean envoy also promoted Roh's stated intention to contribute more proactively than the instant administration to settle various issues related to the Korean Peninsula in the meeting.

Chyung also voiced trust that bilateral talks between Tokyo and Pyongyang make progres toward normalization although difficult tasks remain, including liquidation of the North's abduction of a number of Japanese nationals decades ago, the official said.

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