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)

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You create to affected nuclear power plant in cold shutdown Japan declare

 Release of evaporative condensation apparatus is within the desalination facility seen in the tsunami crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Fukushima Prefecture, in this handout recording 4. December 2011.IMG credit: Reuters/Tokyo Electric Power Co./handout
By Shinichi Saoshiro

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is located on Friday to explain that his tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant cold shutdown has reached an important milestone in efforts under control passed world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl 25 years ago.

Fukushima Daiichi plant, 240 km (150 miles) northeast of Tokyo, was on 11 March a major earthquake and tsunami 10-meter high (33-ft high), the cooling system, triggering meltdowns and radiation leaks knocked destroyed.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is expected, that the achievement of one of the top goals of the Government at a press conference at 0900 GMT, known, but he can also warn that it decades, Fukushima that is completely shattered last six reactors.

Shut down too cold is cool under its boiling point, prevents that of fuel remains reheating, when water used nuclear fuel rods. One of the top goals of the investment manager, Tokyo electric power (Tepco), was too cold to bring the reactor closure until the end of the year.

After months of efforts, the temperature of water in all three of the affected reactors below boiling point from September, but Tepco was careful to declare a cold shutdown that say that see it, if temperatures and the amount of radiation from the plant has remained stable.

Declaring a cold shutdown have effects far beyond the plant: it's Government precondition before it approximately 80,000 residents evacuated within a radius of 20 km (12 miles) of the plant home can return.

NO GRAVE

TEPCO said earlier in the crisis that it do not want the damaged Daiichi reactors in concrete, which in the Ukraine, where reactors Chernobyl caught fire and burned dig days selected option. Instead it preferred the phasing out of nuclear fuel for storage elsewhere.

The Government and the Tepco you want to remove the undamaged nuclear rods of the Daiichi of spent fuel pools so early next year begin. With the complete dismantling of the plant expected to be up to 40 years, reported on Thursday start retrieving of fuel, which in their reactors melted up to but not for another decade, domestic media.

The enormous cost of the cleanup and compensation of the victims of the disaster has drained financial Tepco. Sources that can inject Government over $13 billion in the company already next summer in a de-facto nationalization told Reuters last week.

A massive cleanup task outside of the plant is Japan, if people are to go home. The Environment Ministry says about 2,400 km2 (930 miles) of land around the plant need to be decontaminated, an area about the size of Luxembourg.

Shocked the public believe the crisis in the nuclear energy and Japan checks its earlier plan to increase the share of electricity from nuclear energy to 50 per cent by the year 2030 by 30 percent in 2010 now.
Japan can not immediately walk away from nuclear energy, but few doubt that nuclear power in the future would play a lesser role.

Living in fear of radiation is part of life for the residents nearby and far from the plant. Cases of excessive radiation in the vegetables, tea, milk, fish and water have stoked fear despite assurances from public officials, that the levels detected not are dangerous.

Chernobyl experience has shown that fear will probably continue for many years, with local residents in the vicinity of the former Soviet factory to produce still regularly verified local for radiation before they consume 25 years after the disaster.

The announcement may not drastically Noda of support improve reviews by its unwavering commitment to a VAT hike to deal with a public debt twice the size of Japan's economy heavily eroded. Noda is also a huge list of other tasks, how such as help a stagnating economy address rise to historic highs against the yen.
(Editing by Tomasz Janowski and mark Bendeich)

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