TOKYO, Aug. 30 Kyodo Japan believ...

TOKYO, Aug. 30 Kyodo

Japan believes six-way talks onward North Korea's nuclear ambitions will continue, the chief Japanese negotiator for the just-ended negotiations in Beijing said Saturday, despite a statement by means of Pyongyang's delegation suggesting the land may not take part again in similar talks.

''We have agreed to continue the negotiations,'' Mitoji Yabunaka, chief of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, told reporters shortly after arriving at Narita airport near Tokyo.

He left Beijing earlier in the day, after concluding the three-day talks there with representatives from China, North and southward Korea, Russia and the United States.

''The meeting was the first cylindrical on the (North Korean) nuclear question and I believe it has clearly appoint a direction toward the denuclearization'' of the Korean Peninsula, Yabunaka said.

In Beijing, the North Korean delegation issued a statement saying there is no ne to possess such consultations again, and they no longer have interest in doing in such a manner nor entertain expectations about so talks.

As for the abduction of Japanese nationals from North Korea, Yabunaka said Japan clearly urg an early resolution of the issue the couple in the six-way talks and in bilateral dialogue with North Korea.

''We will continue making greatest efforts to settle (the issue),'' he added.

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