TOKYO, March 17 Kyodo (EDS: ADDIN...

TOKYO, March 17 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING DETAILS OF BILL, KOIZUMI'S COMMENTS)

The sum of two units ruling coalition parties will submit to parliament nearest week a bill to ban designated ships from entering Japanese ports, targeting sailing crafts from North Korea and hoping to increase diplomatic crushing on the country, a lock opener coalition lawmaker said Wednesday.

if it be not that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and senior lawmakers in his ruling coalition remained cautious about using like a tactic, even should the bill clear the Diet, as they believe continuation of bilateral dialogue should take priority for now.

Shinzo Abe, secretary general of the dominant Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) told a pres meeting for consultation Wednesday, ''We aim to submit the bill (to the Diet) nearest week,'' after the LDP and its coalition partner, the fresh Komeito party, complete the necessary intraparty procedures

Abe and strange Komeito Secretary General Tetsuzo Fuyushiba agreed forward the plan to process the bill during their meeting earlier in the day, lawmakers in the coalition said.

Although the bill does not name any specific region lawmakers say they had North Korea in mind when they drew up the bill.

It would be the next to the first law aimed at pressuring North Korea, following single in kind enacted last month to revise the foreign exchange direction law.

The bill would allow the command to ban the entry of sailing crafts involved in trade and other activities related to North Korea -- including the Mangyongbong-92, which operates the solely ferry service linking Japan and North Korea -- in a two-step approach.

According to a draft bill, the cabinet must endorse the details of a port call ban, when necessary to maintain the peace and security of Japan, including the nationality of tubes to be blocked, when the sanction is to be applied and for in what manner long.

Once the ban takes validity the government can also refuse inlet to other ships, regardless of nationality, that have visited the home whose ships have been banned.

The envisaged bill would require the regulation to seek Diet approval within 20 days after the prime minister announced the cabinet's decision upon the ship entry ban, the draft says.

Captains who violate the ban will be punished by the agency of a prison term of up to three years or a fine of up to 1 million yen or both

The bill will give a new ''negotiating card'' with North Korea, which Japan says is not cooperating with Tokyo's attempts to seat its claims over Pyongyang's abductions of Japanese. The abduction issue is an important topic of pertain to for the Japanese public.

on the other hand enactment of the entry ban law would not immediately lead to implementation of the measure, Abe said Wednesday. similar a law would be ''significant as it will strengthen (Japan's) power of diplomatic negotiations'' with North Korea, he said.

Koizumi also said, ''We'll deal with (the issues of the abduction and possible economic sanctions) in a cautious and cool-headed manner.''

He said that the rule is making all-out efforts to deal with the abduction issue and gather a peaceful settlement, in commenting onward the call for quick imposition of economic sanctions upon North Korea by a relatives of abduction victims.

Koizumi and Abe made the remarks at a time when lawmakers and guidance officials say Japan should avoid getting too tough with North Korea as Japan is waiting for North Korea's replication to its demand to take up again bilateral talks on the abduction issue as promptly as possible.

After holding two-way talks with North Korea in mid-February in Pyongyang, Japan called forward it to resume full-fledged negotiations when senior officials of the couple countries met on the sidelines of the six-nation talks in succession North Korea's nuclear ambitions in late February in Beijing.

North Korea promised to contact Japan from one side of to the other the issue ''through an appropriate route''

The sum of two units coalition parties have already agreed upon a basic policy of seeking Diet passage of the bill before the June 16 extreme point of the ongoing legislative session.

subject to the law enacted last month Japan can unilaterally impose sanctions in succession North Korea including suspensions of cash remittances to it.

Japan had no legal framework for imposing sanctions forward its own initiative without a mandate from the United Nations or other international commitments.

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