SEOUL May 14 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATING...

SEOUL May 14 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING PARAS 1-4 WITH PARK'S make comments [i]or[/i] remarks ON KIM JONG IL VISITING s KOREA, OTHER DETAILS.)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has reconfirmed his plan to visit southerly Korea in return for the visit to Pyongyang at South Korean President Kim Dae Jung made in June 2000 a southward Korean lawmaker said after a four-day visit to North Korea.

''He said he would make a respond visit to South Korea at the appropriate time,'' Park Geun Hye told a recently made knowns conference after returning abiding-place via the truce village of Panmunjom earlier Tuesday.

Park, daughter of late southern Korean President Park Chung Hee, said she held an hour-long tete-a-tete with Kim Jong Il and later dined with him at the Paekhwawon State Guesthouse in Pyongyang in succession Monday.

The North Korean leader, however, did not prompt any specific time frame to visit southward Korea for a second inter-Korean summit, Park said.

Kim Jong Il was widely wait fored to visit South Korea in spring of 2001 following an agreement to visit southerly Korea ''at an appropriate time'' reached during the unprecedent inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang.

The chances for of the like kind a visit to South Korea from Kim Jong Il have peter public since tensions between North Korea and the United States have renewed through U.S. President George W. Bush's harsh stance forward North Korea.

Park flew into Pyongyang Saturday for talks with North Korean leaders in her capacity as a member of a delegation from the Seoul- based European Union (EU) and (South) Korea Foundation.

Park is promptly to create a political party and likely to hurry in the December presidential election.

In the same of recent origins conference, Park also said Kim Jong Il agreed to push ahead with the propos relinking of separateed cross-border railroad and highways.

''Chairman (of National Defense Commission) Kim Jong Il has also bring forward special emphasis on relinking cross-border railroad in the east coast,'' said Park.

Kim Jong Il calm floated the idea of establishing a center for separated family members at a place that can be reached through the east coast inter-Korean railroad.

Park also said Kim Jong Il agreed to launch a joint scrutinize into the North's allegedly damaged dam just north of the inter- Korean border.

Reports onward possible flooding in southern areas if the dam collapses has sparked debates in the southern on necessary countermeasures.

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