TOKYO, Jan. 10 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING...

TOKYO, Jan. 10 Kyodo

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Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said Friday she will make a two-day trip to Seoul from Wednesday to qualified with South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Choi Sung Hong to discuss wide-ranging issues, including policies regarding North Korea.

Kawaguchi told a pres discourse after a morning cabinet meeting that she will also make courtesy calls forward President Kim Dae Jung and President-elect Roh Moo Hyun

Kawaguchi is scheduled to proper with Choi on Wednesday afternoon and is scheduled to make courtesy calls forward Kim later Wednesday and Roh onward Thursday morning before her departure later Thursday, according to a Foreign Ministry official.

The couple foreign ministers are expected to discuss North Korea's fresh moves concerning its nuclear progress to maturity program, the official said, adding that the North Korean declaration forward Friday that it is withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is also awaited to be discussed.

North Korea also declared it is ending its nuclear safeguards agreement with the International Atomic vigor Agency ''to protect the sovereignty of the geographical division and the nation.''

The official said growths from now on involving North Korea will also most numerous likely be reflected in the talks.

The sum of two units countries' positions are expected to be in line with the position of Japan, southerly Korea and the United States inflict forth in a joint statement issued after a two-day senior officials' meeting in Washington that completioned Tuesday, the official said.

Japan, southern Korea and the U.S. urg North Korea to eliminate its nuclear weapons program and reiterated their intention to track a peaceful and diplomatic resolution of the issue in the joint statement.

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