SEOUL, June 14 (Xinhuanet) -- South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun will hold a summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Seoul on June 20 to discuss the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and bilateral relations, announced Roh's spokesman Kim Man-soo on Tuesday.

    Kim said in a news release issued by the South Korean Presidential Office the two leaders will "talk about a broad range of issues, including a shared perception of history, relations between South Korea and Japan and ways for bilateral cooperation to resolve the nuclear issue."

    The spokesman said Koizumi will make a two-day trip to Seoul until June 21 for the summit, hoping the two leaders use the chance to discuss the "right direction" of the South Korea-Japan relationship.

    The announcement comes just hours after Roh told a luncheon meeting with leaders of the ruling and opposition parties that "I am still in anguish over whether to hold the South Korea-Japan summit....No decision has yet been made on what the agenda should be at the summit if it actually happens."

    Kim Man-soo explained in the release that Roh made the final decision on the summit with Koizumi after Tuesday's luncheon meeting because most of the leaders of the political parties supported the summit.

    South Korea and Japan agreed to have a working summit every six months in early 2004. The first "no-tie" summit was held on South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju in July 2004 and the second on Kagoshima, a Japanese resort island, in December 2004.

    South Korea-Japan ties have experienced cold time since early 2005 due to their territorial disputes over a group of islets located in the East Sea (Sea of Japan).

    Japan's authorization of a school textbook whitewashing Japan's aggression past also marred bilateral ties of the two countries. Enditem