Japan calls for China to North Korea in check to keep

1 of 3. Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) looks after a meeting with China's national people's Congress Congress Chairman Wu Bangguo (R) in the great Hall of the people in Beijing 26 December 2011.

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By Kiyoshi Takenaka

BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan calls China a major role in ensuring North Korea avoids shoulders volatility after the death of its leader, Kim Jong-il on Monday.

The Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda called the Chinese President Hu Jintao has Exchange of information on the developments in North Korea, where the succession of Kim's son Kim Jong-un, speculation about who is really the mysterious a party State and his nuclear program control fanned.

"It is important that we have not the death of the Chairman of the National Defense Commission Kim have a negative impact on the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula", noted Noda by a Japanese official as telling Hu during a visit to Beijing.

Many positions include head of the important military Commission Kim Jong-il.

"In these circumstances, the role of China, is the Chair country of the six-party talks and has a great influence on North Korea, is extremely important," Noda, said after the official informed the reporter, but it declined to identify.

The so-called six-party talks include the two Koreas, China, Japan, the United States and Russia and are aimed at getting North Korea give up its efforts to develop nuclear weapons.

The Japanese Prime Minister is the first regional leader to visit China since Kim Jong-il's death was announced a week ago.

China is in the North of only major ally and the North has long on China for diplomatic and economic support.

Chinese State news agency Xinhua said that Hu Noda said, that it is in the interests of all parties stability on the Korean peninsula.

"China is willing, together with all the parties involved, including Japan, to maintain peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and to achieve lasting peace, security and order in the peninsula and (in) North-East Asia, efforts" Xinhua quoted Hu as talking.

Noda asks China to upcoming about what it learned about the Northern transition.

"I would strong information exchange between Japan and China, and intend to calm the situation and correctly" the Japanese official quote Noda told Hu at the second and last day of his visit.

North Korea has the region with two plutonium-based nuclear test blasts, alerted a number of military conflicts and explanations that it has been developed uranium enrichment, which could open a different path of assembling nuclear weapons.

Restriction of North Korea is especially important for Japan, in the field of missiles is located in the North and wants to help spies decades ago hit them and resolve the problem of the fate of Japanese citizens abducted to North Korea.

But China is careful to disturb, North Korea, in a delicate transition, and his comments of on the public the impact of who has restricted Kim's death beam calls for stability and peace.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry in his account of the talks "Both sides agreed the maintenance of peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula serves the interests of all sides," said Wen on Sunday between Noda and Prime Minister Jiabao.

(Additional reporting by Chris Buckley and Ben Blanchard;) (Editing by Robert Birsel)