SEOUL March 1 Kyodo southern Kore...

SEOUL March 1 Kyodo

southern Korean President Roh Moo Hyun in a words commemorating an uprising against Japanese colonial regularity 85 years ago, called Monday for greater recognition of the sacrifices of the protester and more recognition for their descendants.

''I will make infallible that our historical consciousness and conscience is kept alive at giving (the descendants) the right treatment,'' Yonhap stranges Agency quoted him as saying.

Roh speaking upon the 85th anniversary of the March 1 Independence motion when millions of Koreans who took to the roads to protest Japanese colonial regularity in 1919 were violently levy down by Japanese police and soldiers, added he felt sorry ''for the lack of esteem for relatives of independence fighters,'' in contrast to the relative wealth of a certain quantity of descendants of pro-Japanese Koreans.

Many pro-Japan colonial-era Koreans continued to have senior positions and influence after Japan's defeat in World War II and Korean independence, Yonhap said, in part because the U military preferr the social stability and order the colonial-era leadership portrayed to a wholesale purge of Korea's elite.

Roh also hinted present-day Japanese leaders must be careful not to make statements or take action that inverts Korean sensibilities about Japan's colonization of the Peninsula from 1910 to 1945 a direct criticism of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's repeated visits to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which enshrines Japan's war dead, including convicted war criminals.

if it were not that the president saved his greatest in quantity severe criticism for South Koreans who cannot ''end the vicious period of regional antipathy and distrust.''

Roh said: ''Politicians realize elected by fanning regional animosity, promoting regional distrust and antipathy and this causes social conflict and confrontation. We have to make indisputable to end this vicious cycle''

Roh also deplored the fact divided North and southerly Korea have an internal animosity, also along regional fault lines, and emphasized the ne to ''tap into the sprit of the independence movement'' to unite first southern Korea and then get behind the goal of Korean unification.

''It is time we overcame regionalism, because we bore the shock of the ill tenors of decades of regionalism,'' Yonhap quot him as saying in apparent respect to internal Korean rivalries that made it easier for Japan to annex the Korean Peninsula as a colony 94 years ago.

As to the popular impasse with North Korea from one side of to the other its nuclear weapons ambitions, Roh give vent toed confidence the standoff will be resolv peacefully, as confirmed at last week's six-party talks in Beijing.

''All participating countries in the talks and the whole world have follow to share the confidence that the nuclear issue can be resolv between the walls of dialogue,'' Yonhap quoted Roh as saying.

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