TOKYO, March 8 Kyodo - New Komeito party leader Takenori Kanzaki said Saturday he has told Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan wants Japan to consider providing food aid to North Korea. ''I'll consider (the matter) with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda,'' Koizumi replied in a telephone conversation Friday night, said Kanzaki, who met with the U.N. chief during a visit to the United States earlier this week. Fukuda has already told Kanzaki that it would be difficult to resume food aid to North Korea, according to a New Komeito party official. .....