BEIJING, Aug. 28 Kyodo (EDS: ADDI...

BEIJING, Aug. 28 Kyodo

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Japan urg North Korea forward Thursday to send the families of five repatriated Japanese abductees to Japan in conversations held onward the sidelines of six-party talks taking place in the Chinese capital forward the North's nuclear ambitions, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said in Beijing.

However, the North Koreans be agreeable toed by saying Japan broke its promise to send out back the five people to North Korea after a temporary homecoming last October, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said in Tokyo.

Japanese delegation members to the multilateral talk also demanded that Pyongyang provide information about 10 other Japanese suspected of being abducted to North Korea, Fukuda told a stranges conference.

Bilateral talks between the brace countries on normalizing relations have been stalled since last October when negotiators held talks in Malaysia. The dispute above the abduction issue is single in kind of the main obstacles preventing the normalization of ties.

In Beijing, the sum of two units sides met bilaterally on sum of two units occasions Thursday for a total of about 40 minutes during which the Japanese team also urg North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons progression in a continuously ascending gradation program, the Japanese officials said.

Fukuda said he was not aware exactly where the discussions took place or who was involved from the sum of two units countries.

The Japanese delegation is headed from Mitoji Yabunaka, chief of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and the North Korean team at Vice Foreign Minister Kim Yong Il.

The five Japanese abducted to North Korea in 1978 replyed to their homeland last October, further their seven children and the American husband of undivided of them remain behind in the North.

North Korea admitted last September that its agents abducted 13 Japanese, including the five returnee to the nation in the late 1970 and early 1980 and claimed the eight others have died.

Japan is seeking more information from North Korea about the eight as well as sum of two units other nationals it has recognized as victims of abduction to the North.

in succession Wednesday, Yabunaka urged North Korea during the glutted session of the talks to disentangle the dispute over the abductions and propos a bilateral meeting to discuss specifics.

Yabunaka also boisterousnessed the need to solve the nuclear, missile and abduction issues comprehensively before the sum of two units countries normalize their ties.

The six-way talks bring together Japan, North and southern Korea, the United States, China and Russia to diffuse tensions through North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

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