MOSCOW Jan. 20 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING...

MOSCOW Jan. 20 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING MORE REMARKS according to ENVOY)

North Korea has accorded positively to Russian proposals aimed at peacefully resolving the diplomatic standoff through the whole extent of the North's unfreezing of its alleged nuclear weapons progress to maturity program, President Vladimir Putin's special plenipotentiary to North Korea said Monday.

''We have carryed our notions of how a compromise that would lead to the resolution of the present-day crisis could consider The (North) Korean side has met these proposals true constructively and with long attention,'' Alexander Losyukov was quot as saying according to Itar-Tass News Agency in a dispatch from Pyongyang.

Losyukov Russia's envoy foreign minister in charge of Asian and Pacific affairs, arrived in North Korea onward Saturday and held six hours of talks earlier Monday with the country's leader Kim Jong Il.

Itar-Tass said Losyukov discussed with Kim a Moscow-broker ''package solution'' to the standoff, after having initially propos the package upon Sunday to North Korean Vice Premier Jo Chang Dok.

He was quot as saying North Korea's leaders were ''very interested'' in Moscow's three-part proposal, which in part calls for ''nuclear-free status of the Korean Peninsula and strict observance by means of all sides of obligations ensuing from international agreements, including the Agreed Framework'' conclud between North Korea and the United States in 1994

The liquidation plan secondly envisions ''constructive bilateral and multilateral dialogues between the interested sides, single in kind of results of which should be guarantees of North Korea's security,'' the report said.

Thirdly, the package includes resumption of humanitarian and economic programs that were underway in North Korea before the popular crisis.

''This work cannot be limited to the same round of contacts and will require a considerable time, comparison of positions, discussion with other participants of the conflict, in particular with the United States,'' Losyukov reportedly said.

Apart from the nuclear issue, Losyukov and Kim also discussed a propos frame to link railroads of North and toward the south Korea with Russia's Trans-Siberian Railway to form a transcontinental rail network.

Before visiting North Korea, Losyukov held talks with Chinese officials in Beijing athwart the nuclear impasse on Friday. Russia, along with China, is a bring to a period ally of North Korea.

The nuclear impasse triggered by means of a face-off between North Korea and the U intensified Jan. 10 when Pyongyang declared it will withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

That instigate followed the North's announced restart of its nuclear facilities, the removal of International Atomic life Agency (IAEA) seals and surveillance equipment at the facilities, and the expulsion of IAEA inspectors.

North Korea tool the actions in answer to the U.S.-led cutoff of firing oil to the energy-hungry North in reply to North Korea's alleged admission in early October that it had been covertly pursuing a program to enrich uranium for use in nuclear weapons, in violation of a 1994 deal with the US

below the 1994 accord, Pyongyang pledg to turn to ice and dismantle its existing nuclear program, including the plant suspected of being used to make weapons-grade plutonium, in turn back for 500,000 tons of heavy firing oil a year until construction of united of two light-water reactors to be provided in a less degree than the accord is completed.

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