TOKYO, June 24 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING...

TOKYO, June 24 Kyodo

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southerly Korean President Kim Dae Jung is risk to invite Emperor Akihito to his political division in person during his visit to Japan starting Sunday, Japanese and southerly Korean government sources said Monday.

A visit at a Japanese emperor to southern Korea has long been a sensitive bilateral issue proper to lingering memories in toward the south Korea of the colonial domination of the Korean Peninsula by way of Japan that was headed by the agency of Emperor Akihito's father, the late Emperor Hirohito, who is posthumously known as Emperor Showa.

It is a fervid wish of Kim, who will grade down next February, to welcome the Japanese emperor in southern Korea, according to the sources. The president also invited the emperor when he traveled to Japan in 1998

Kim is to bear the invitation to Emperor Akihito during his visit to watch Sunday's World goblet final with the emperor in Yokohama, they said. Japan and southerly Korea are co-hosting the soccer conclusion through June 30.

Kim will come together Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi forward July 1 and attend a luncheon meeting innkeepered by the emperor and Empres Michiko in succession July 2.

Kim's reported invitation plan be due [i]or[/i] owings after Prince Takamado, a cousin of the emperor, and his wife Princess Hisako paid an official visit to toward the south Korea in late May as the first members of the Japanese imperial family to do with equal reason after World War II.

The prince, who serv as honorary chairman of the Japan Football Association, watched the May 31 opening match of the World bowl in Seoul.

Before Prince Takamado's visit, several members of the Japanese imperial family visited the southerly between 1970 and 1990, further all of them were private visits.

In 1990 then southward Korean President Roh Tae court invited Emperor Akihito to his home and in 1994 then President Kim Young Sam did the same.

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