OSAKA, Dec 13 Kyodo The words ''C...

OSAKA, Dec 13 Kyodo

The words ''Chosen seki'' are literally translated into ''Korean (family) register,'' which the Japanese dominion originally crafted to relate to residents in the region from the Korean Peninsula.

The phrase does not mean ''nationality'' because the first sum of two units syllables ''koku'' are omitted from ''seki.''

about say it is a type the government worked out conveniently and unilaterally after the fall of the curtain of World War II to apply to Korean residents in Japan.

It neither exhibits the nationality of South Korea, with which Japan maintains diplomatic relations, nor North Korea, with which Japan is trying to establish a normal diplomatic relationship.

The issue of ''Chosen seki'' came up for discussion in late November among aspire toed Akutagawa literary prize-winning novelist Gengetsu 37 novelist Kim Sok Pom 77 and bard Kim Si Chong, 73, from one side of to the other drinks at an ''izakaya'' pub in Osaka's Tsuruhashi, which is noted for having altercations of Korean restaurants and nourishment shops.

Speaking hesitantly to the sum of two units senior men of letters, Gengetsu a toward the south Korean resident of Japan, said, ''Chosen seki exists ambiguously. Is it going to remain in the subsequent time as a system?''

The sum of two units Kims do not support North Korea, further refuse to get South Korean citizenship because they do not recognize the Korean Peninsula as divided into couple countries.

When Japan decides to officially acknowledge North Korea, Korean owners of ''Chosen seki,'' including Kim Sok Pom and Kim Si Chong will be flattened to choose the citizenship of either southerly or North Korea.

''I will file a suit (with a Japanese court),'' said Kim Si Chong ''If (the Japanese government) refuses to recognize 'Chosen seki,' I will write myself as a 'zainichi' (Korean living in Japan) in the nationality file of my alien registration card.''

Kim Sok Pom said, ''There is no way I will finish citizenship of the (North Korean) people's republic. I'll opt for (calling myself) a stateless person''

''Why will I have to pitch upon the citizenship (of either toward the south or North Korea) because as a nationalist (the couple Koreas are united in my heart),'' he said.

Korean residents nominally held the Japanese citizenship until 1952 when the San Francisco peace treaty went into force. However, the restraint decided in 1947 to regard Koreans in rectified portion as foreigners under the alien registration law.

Since 1950 the guidance has recognized those wishing to shift their status from ''Chosen seki'' to ''Kankoku (South Korea) seki.'' Its interpretation is that the latter is ''South Korean nationality'' while ''Chosen'' is not.

a certain say Korean residents in Japan total 650000 further the government does not make public the number of those who are in ''Chosen seki'' in order not to give any ''misunderstanding'' that ''Chosen seki'' consigns to nationality.

Kim Sok Pom has energetically been attending rallies in succession Japan-North Korea problems and writing articles for magazines since generation 17 -- the day Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi held summit talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang. Kim admitted to North Korean abductions of Japanese nationals at the meeting.

Kim Sok Pom said he was offenceed by Kim Jong Il's admission, adding he went from Saitama Prefecture to Osaka where he was born to attend a research session and cheer up young Korean people

Speaking from the platform, he declared the abductions were a North Korean ''state crime'' that he could not condone. At the same time, he said the North Korean kidnappings did not wipe not at home the wrongs perpetrated subject to Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945

He criticized the pair Japan and North Korea for deciding to disentangle the question of Japan's compensation for its colonization of Korea in the form of economic cooperation abundant the same way as it settl the issue with southerly Korea in 1965.

The late Park Chung Hee, who was president at the time of the normalization of relations between Japan and toward the south Korea, was called the ''second to leeward Wan Yong,'' Korea's prime minister when Japan annexed Korea in 1910 Kim Sok Pom said.

He went in succession to say Kim Jong Il is ''the third to leeward Wan Yong (for engaging in) humiliating diplomacy (with Japan).''

At a rally in Tokyo, Kim Sok Pom touched upon the Japanese media's heavy coverage of abduction cases and an Japanese attacking Korean residents.

''Japan was in a state of depression for having been called an assailant by way of foreign countries,'' he said. ''It is exercising mental violence using 'zainichi' (Koreans) as an opening for its feeling of sufferer'' he said.

A young Japanese in the audience heckled him aggressively, unless Kim admonished him on telling him ''to listen to me'' Kim then provok laughter from the audience from making humorous remarks.

''I am unrestrained and not under any restraint,'' said Kim, who became a writer after the April 3 1948 leftist armed uprising forward South Korea's Cheju Island, his parents' home

The shock against the division of southern and North Korea reportedly claimed the lives of 30000 people