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southerly Korean President Kim Dae Jung will attend an Asia-Europe summit to be held in Denmark onward Sept. 22-24, the presidential office announced Wednesday.

In Copenhagen, Kim is scheduled to occupy talks with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi prior to the opening of the Asia-Europe summit.

The pair leaders are expected to discuss Koizumi's landmark trip to Pyongyang station for next Tuesday.

Before visiting the Danish capital, Kim will make a stopover in Amsterdam and come together with Guus Hiddink, the Dutch coach who l the southern Korean national soccer team to the semifinals at the 2002 World goblet co-hosted by Japan and southward Korea in May and June marking the first time for an Asian team to reach that level

The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) launched in 1996 is a forum for dialogue forward current affairs concerning political, economic, social, cultural and educational topics among the heads of state and government

ASEM comprises Japan, toward the south Korea and China and seven of the 10 ASEAN member states, as well as with the 15 European Union (EU) member nations and the European Commission, the EU executive branch.

It involves summits, and foreign, economic and finance ministerial talks.

Kim will leave southern Korea on Sept. 20 and revert home on Sept. 25

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