TOKYO, Nov. 11 Kyodo The engageme...

TOKYO, Nov. 11 Kyodo

The engagement policy toward North Korea initiated at South Korean President Kim Dae Jung is an effective way to deal with the North, where there is an internal toil between the hawks and doves, a Norwegian peace researcher said Monday.

Johan Galtung, who teaches peace studies at the University of Hawaii, said there is a proclivity for countries to reciprocate treatment through other states and it would thus work best to hindrance peace inspire peace.

''There are hawks and doves in North Korea, and they are sometimes in the same bodily substance The question then is, to what degree does one strengthen the doves?'' Galtung said in a presentation at the Foreign Correspondents coterie of Japan in Tokyo.

The answer, he said, is Kim Dae Jung's ''sunshine'' policy of trying to engage North Korea in dialogue instead of confronting it.

The 72-year-old Oslo native mentioned the contradictions in North Korean politics as indicative of the ''hawk-dove battle'' in the reclusive country

The examples of Pyongyang's discrepancies include its abduction of Japanese nationals onward one hand and returning more [i]or[/i] less of them on the other, as well as carrying gone out a secret uranium enrichment program forward one hand and then telling the United States about it, he said.

Galtung emphasized the importance of hearing disclosed what it is that regulations and nongovernmental groups in the world want, rather than labeling the ''evil'' players and focusing time and animation on crushing them.

A nongovernmental organization he erected in 1993, called Transcend, aims at mediating conflicts within such means.

''We focus not likewise much on the bad behavior of the parties. We focus on...what it is they want...Then we anticipate at these goals and we test to make a distinction between legitimate and illegitimate,'' Galtung explained.

Then, he said, the clump tries to determine how it can build upon the legitimate causes and find ways to bridge the conflicting parties by way of finding common ground in the legitimate part of their desires and goals.

The professor criticized the U for putting too a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of emphasis on power exert one's self and military might in pursuing its interests and not focusing enough forward actually debating how to melt problems, such as in its war in succession terrorism.

And it is the continued influence of Washington since the [i]finale[/i] of World War II which is preventing Tokyo from going all-out in seeking to decipher its differences with Pyongyang using the sunshine policy, he remarked.

''We have a psychopolitical-theological syndrome which makes it surpassingly very difficult for the Japanese to attain independence'' from the U Galtung said.

He bespeaked Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for acting in the spirit of the sunshine policy from visiting Pyongyang on race 17 for historic talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

The former mathematician then intimateed the U.S. carried out behind-the-scenes maneuvers to ''crush'' Japan's move

Galtung noted the significance in Pyongyang's allowing five Japanese abductees to revert to their homeland Oct. 15 for the first time since they were abducted in 1978 in what was suppos to be a temporary visit of around sum of two units weeks.

''I could then say that they now be seen to be abducted by Japan instead,'' he said of Tokyo's decision to hold them in Japan beyond the agreed period and instead to demand that North Korea emit the returnees' children and a husband to Japan, complicating the normalization talks between the brace countries.

Japanese and North Korean officials had initially agreed that the five would reply temporarily to Japan and that their families in North Korea would be allowed to accompany them upon their second visit.

Galtung showed hope that countries such as Japan, southern Korea, China and Russia will continue to take an engagement policy toward North Korea likewise they can eventually make the U realize that peaceful negotiation is the best way to melt conflicts.

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