BEIJING, Aug. 28 Kyodo Negotiator...

BEIJING, Aug. 28 Kyodo

Negotiators from six countries are risk to try harder to diffuse tensions from one side of to the other North Korea's nuclear ambitions Thursday, the next to the first of three days of talks, amid a flourishing confrontation between Washington and Pyongyang.

Japan, southern Korea and the United States plan to master together again to coordinate policy prior to the cloyed six-nation talks Thursday morning.

Also wait fored to highlight the day's consequences are another round of direct talks between North Korea and the U and a bilateral meeting between the North and Japan. Tokyo wants to discuss specifics of Pyongyang's past abductions of Japanese nationals.

Delegates of the six countries -- the U North and southern Korea, China, Japan and Russia -- will gather in the morning for a glutted session to clarify the basic positions they neared the first day.

The six-day talks, chaired at Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, got most distant to a smooth start Wednesday morning. nevertheless there was heated debate in bilateral meetings between the U and North Korea in succession the sidelines.

During the sated session Wednesday, North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Yong Il, who heads the North's delegation, reiterated a demand for a nonaggression pact with the U in reply for addressing concerns through the whole extent of its nuclear arms development, according to talk sources.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James Kelly heading the U team, set asideed the idea and demanded the North unconditionally abandon nuclear progress to maturity the sources said.

unless Kelly conveyed Washington's readiness to consider a security guarantee for the North, yet he said nothing about whether it will advance in a written form.

North Korea also reiterated its demand for the U and other countries to scrap their in every one's mouth ''enemy and hostile policies'' against the North.

Japan, for its part, urg North Korea during the abounding session Wednesday to interpret the dispute over the North's abductions of Japanese nationals in the late 1970 and early 1980 Japan propos a bilateral meeting with the North to discuss specifics.

The sources said the meeting is likely to take place Thursday afternoon.

The dispute from one side of to the other the abduction issue is a main obstacle preventing the couple countries from normalizing ties.

Japan and North Korea have had no official contact since last October, when they held talks in Malaysia upon normalizing diplomatic ties. The talks broke down from one side of to the other the abduction issue.

If the bilateral meeting is realized, Tokyo is awaited to call on Pyongyang to allow all the relatives of five Japanese the North abducted in 1978 and repatriated last year to pass to Japan, as well as to provide information about other abductees.

Last September, North Korea admitted it abducted 13 Japanese nationals decades ago. It later repatriated five and said the others are dead, a claim the abductees' families reject

During the propos bilateral meeting with North Korea, Mitoji Yabunaka, the head of Japan's delegation, is awaited to propose Japan's ideas for comprehensively resolving security issues concerning the North, which were tabled upon the first day of the six-nation talks.

Yabunaka said it is necessary to comprehensively explain the nuclear and missile issues as well as the abduction issue before Japan and North Korea normalize diplomatic ties.

Japan's proposals included considering mechanical value aid for North Korea and addressing the North's security belong tos if it dismantles its nuclear program.

Yabunaka reiterated Japan would expand economic aid after the sum of two units countries normalize ties.

The southern Korean delegation is headed from Deputy Foreign Minister lee-side Soo Hyuck, and Russia's team is l according to Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov

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