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Japan calls for China to North Korea in check to keep

Written By Guru Cool on Monday, December 26, 2011 | 8:25 AM

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) attends a meeting with China's National People's Congress Chairman Wu Bangguo (R) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing December 26, 2011. REUTERS/ Ed Jones/Pool

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.

IMG credit: Reuters / Ed Jones/pool

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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Former South Korean first lady heads North for condolence

Written By Guru Cool on Monday, December 19, 2011 | 1:52 AM

Former first lady Lee Hee-ho (L), the widow of late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, and Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Jung-eun are escorted by officials as they leave for Pyongyang in order to pay their respects over North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's death, at the CIQ (customs, immigration and quarantine) office, just south of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul, December 26, 2011. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Former first lady Lee Hee-ho (L), which accompanied widow of late South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung and Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Jung-Eun of officials, left for Pyongyang, for the honour of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died in the CIQ (immigration, customs and quarantine) Office, South of the demilitarisierten zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, in Paju, North of Seoul, 26 December 2011.
IMG credit: Reuters/Kim Kyung-hoon
By ju-min Park

PAJU, South Korea (Reuters) - the widow of former South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung, the author of a political commitment now overboard thrown with North Korea, crossed the fortified land border between the two sides on Monday of their honor late dictator Kim Jong-il.

Relations between North and South have frozen Myung-bak Lee since the election of conservative South Korean President in 2008, to force the aid in a bid to give up a nuclear program in the North and to bring to the negotiating table.

A 13-member delegation headed by Lee Hee-ho, the widow of former President Kim Dae-Jung, who masterminded the border crossed the so-called "sunshine policy" of engagement with the North by car and pay their respects at the bier of Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang.

"I hope, my visit to North Korea helps to improve South-North Korea relations" Yoon-chul-Koo, an adviser to Lee, quoted them at an Immigration Office on the southern edge of the de-militarized zone.
Lee, who met Kim Jong-il in Pyongynag in the year 2000 in the first inter-Korean Summit since the end of 1953 the Korea war, remain for two days and not the December 28 funeral will take part.

The most South Koreans are banned, from the North under the current policy of the Government and the Republic of Korea, which is technically at war with the North, no official delegation to Kim, is to complain about, who died earlier this month to send.

Was asked by reporters at the crossroads of whether North Korea's delegation wants to comply with new leader Kim Jong-un, Yoon, said the visit for "pure condolence."

Kim Jong-un, who is in his late 20s, is the third of his line to rule impoverished in the North, although he makes likely parts with a clique is.

A second group of grieving from South Korea led by the widow of a South Korea's largest conglomerates, investment in the North in Pyongyang launched.

Hyun Jeong-Eun, the wife of the Hyundai business group, late former Chairman Chung Mong-Hun, led a delegation of five people.

Hyun father-in-law was Hyundai founder Chung Ju-Yung, who in 1999 founded as one of the largest investors in the North Korea's Kumgang mountain tourist resort Busness Hyundai Asan Corp.

The business was exposed to a South Korean tourist resort since the fatal shooting in 2008.
Hyundai Asan project is Kaesong industrial park in the North, some sources of foreign currency in an impoverished North.

(Reporting by ju-min Park;) (Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)
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