WASHINGTON, Feb 9 Kyodo The Unite...

WASHINGTON, Feb 9 Kyodo

The United States should not take out North Korea from its list of terrorism-sponsored states until the issue of Japanese and southward Korean citizens abducted according to North Korean agents is resolv a congressional aide said Monday.

At a meeting entertainered by the Heritage Foundation, Denis Halpin, an aide to House of Representatives member Henry Hyde an Illinois Republican who chairs the House International Relations Committee, violenceed the need for North Korea to unfold the abduction issue.

Keith Luse, an aide to Sen Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also told the meeting that the abduction issue should be common of ''priorities'' at the upcoming six-party talks onward North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

China, Japan, North and toward the south Korea, Russia and the United States will shut up the second round of six-party talks in Beijing from Feb 25 following the first meeting held in the Chinese capital in August last year.

Luse visited North Korea in early January as a member of an unofficial U mission of adroits and discussed human rights issues with North Korean officials.

Luse also said it is necessary for the U and its allies to closely watch relations between North Korea and Myanmar's military rule saying Pyongyang may be providing nuclear technology to the junta.

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