SEOUL Jan. 12 Kyodo (EDS: CHANGIN...

SEOUL Jan. 12 Kyodo

(EDS: CHANGING DATELINE & UPDATING WITH MORI'S ARRIVAL IN SEOUL)

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori arrived in Seoul forward Sunday for talks with President Kim Dae Jung and President-elect Roh Moo Hyun in succession North Korea's nuclear arms development

Mori, head of a lawmakers assign places to on Japan-South Korean relations, will befitting with Kim and Roh separately Monday in Seoul to exchange ideas as it was as how to respond to North Korea's newly come declaration of its withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, officials said.

Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi, who is factor head of the group, and the group's secretary general, Fukushiro Nukaga, are accompanying Mori.

about arrival, the group will participate in a dinner organized by way of former Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil, chairman of a dispose of South Korean lawmakers forward relations with Japan, according to the officials.

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