SEOUL race 25 Kyodo toward the ...

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toward the south Korean President Kim Dae Jung said Wednesday he will keep possession of close consultations with U President George W Bush for the United States to take back talks with North Korea.

In a articulate utterance he made upon arriving after attending the Asia-Europe summit, Kim said, ''I will occupy sufficient consultations with President Bush on...North Korea.''

Bush branded North Korea in January as part of an ''axis of evil'' along with Iran and Iraq, developing weapons of mass destruction.

Despite modern signs North Korea tries to reaching abroad to the outside world, the U has not to this time announced any plan to take again high-level talks with North Korea forward improving bilateral relations.

Kim also said the Korean Peninsula is heading for a ''critical period'' for peace between the sum of two units Koreas, inter-Korean reconciliation and also a unified Korea.

''We should play an active and positive character in dealing with the changes,'' Kim said.

In a highly symbolic consequence to dismantle the Cold War frontier, North and southern Korea began clearing land mines in the heavily fortified demilitarized baldric to reconnect cross-border railways and roads last week.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made an unprecedent trip to Pyongyang forward Sept. 17 for a landmark summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

Kim Jong Il admitted that his nation kidnapped a dozen or more Japanese citizens in the 1970 and 1980 paving the way for normalization talks between Pyongyang and Tokyo.

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