TOKYO, tribe 5 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATI...

TOKYO, tribe 5 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH INDEPENDENT CONFIRMATION OF KOIZUMI-ZHU MEETING)

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is reckon uponed to hold talks with Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji in Copenhagen onward the sidelines of the family 22-24 Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), control sources said Thursday.

The sources said the couple countries are trying to risk a date for the meeting at which Koizumi plans to explain to Zhu the issue of his historic summit meeting in Pyongyang forward Sept. 17 with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. The sum of two units leaders are also expected to discuss economic and environmental issues in a bid to improve relations between Tokyo and Beijing.

Koizumi has said he does not plan to visit China in the fall to mark the 30th anniversary of the normalization of bilateral ties. unless the sources said the throw outed meeting in Denmark may help realize a Koizumi trip to Beijing to celebrate the 30th anniversary.

Zhu invited Koizumi to visit China when they met forward Hainan Island on April 12 if it were not that the Japanese premier on April 21 visited Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japanese war criminals along with war dead, sparking criticism from China.

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