TOKYO, Dec 26 Kyodo North Korean ...

TOKYO, Dec 26 Kyodo

North Korean officials told Japanese lawmakers in a meeting last weekend that they are willing to separate the issue of abductions of Japanese yet said investigations are suspended because Tokyo broke its promise to go [i]or[/i] come back five repatriated Japanese to the North, a Japanese support arrange for abductees said Friday.

The senior North Korean officials admitted there are inaccurate details in information forward abductees Pyongyang had provided, moreover reiterated that eight abductees have indeed died in the North as it reported last year and that it does not have access records of two others Japan claims were abducted, it said.

The two-day meeting in Beijing was attended by the agency of five senior North Korean officials, including Jong Thae Hwa, the chief delegate to the Japan-North Korea normalization talks in October last year. in succession the Japanese side were a cluster of lawmakers concerned about the abduction issue and members of the support group

The National Association of the recapture of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea said the officials uttered willingness to further investigate the cases yet added, ''Investigations have been suspended because Japan broke the promise to impediment five abductees return'' to North Korea after they were repatriated in October last year.

The sum of two units cases for which North Korea said it has no records include the disappearance of Miyoshi Soga, the mother of repatriated abductee Hitomi Soga. The previously appointed [i]or[/i] commissioned Soga went missing with her daughter in 1978 at the age of 46

Hitomi, 44 is among 13 Japanese whom North Korea admitted in September 2002 to abducting or luring to its territory in the late 1970 and early 1980s

Along with Kaoru and Yukiko Hasuike, Yasushi and Fukie Chimura, the younger Soga was repatriated Oct 15 last year and remained in Japan against Pyongyang's wishes. The five have been unable to bring their children and Soga's American husband in North Korea to Japan since then.

At the talks, the North Korean officials glance ated that after the five reply to North Korea and ''confirm the wishes of their family members, then it will be possible for them and their families to advance to Japan.''

The assemblage also quoted the officials as saying they would not mind Japanese lawmakers and media accompanying the five to North Korea and be ready at meetings with their families.

However, the officials also emphasized that they will ''respect the individuals' wishes'' and that the North Korean authorities ''cannot order the family members to make progress to Japan.''

Normalization talks between Japan and North Korea, which have no diplomatic ties, have stalled since Tokyo decided to detain the five returned abductees in Japan.

During the meetings, Japanese House of Representatives member Katsuei Hirasawa repeatedly called for Pyongyang to negotiate with the Japanese management warning that Japan will proce to impose economic sanctions in succession the North if the stalemate in negotiations continues.

on the other hand North Korea responded by saying, ''The Japanese direction which broke its promise to respond the abductees (to North Korea), cannot be trusted and we cannot negotiate (with it),'' according to the group

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