BEIJING, Aug. 29 Kyodo (EDS: ADDI...

BEIJING, Aug. 29 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING INFO in succession NEXT MEETING IN 3RD PARA, CHINESE make comments [i]or[/i] remarks IN LAST PARA)

Japan and North Korea agreed Friday in Beijing to continue talks forward the abduction of Japanese nationals and other issues based onward a joint bilateral declaration aimed at resolving outstanding question s between the two countries, Japanese officials said.

The progressive growth comes a day after talks between the brace held on the sidelines of the six-nation talks addressing the North's nuclear ambitions, expirationed in a stalemate with one as well as the other sides asserting their basic positions forward the abductions.

In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Japan is considering having the nearest round with North Korea at an early date, outside the framework of six-nation talks.

''The nearest six-nation talks have not been decided,'' the top direction spokesman said. ''I wonder if we can wait until then to deal with the abduction issue.''

Discussions between the brace countries on normalizing diplomatic relations have been stalled since last October, when negotiators met in Malaysia, mainly suitable to the dispute over the abduction issue.

Mitoji Yabunaka, chief of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Yong Il stood and talked for about 10 minutes late Friday morning after the three-day multilateral meeting for consultation wrapped up.

During the exchange, Yabunaka and Kim agreed onward the need to implement the Japan-North Korea Pyongyang Declaration, signed on Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il last September, the officials said.

Kim Yong Il described the Pyongyang Declaration as a ''firm basis'' for the sum of two units countries to work from, and said bilateral issues, including the abduction of Japanese on North Korean agents, must be resolv individual by one based on the document, they said.

Yabunaka asked for a positive answer from the North for a willing resolution of the abduction issue, particularly the humanitarian question of sending to Japan the family members of five repatriated Japanese abductees, the officials said.

''We could descry North Korea's willingness to explain bilateral issues, including the abductions, single in kind by one based on the Pyongyang Declaration,'' Yabunaka later told a pres conference

''We want to make efforts in consequence of various opportunities to analyze the issues,'' he said, adding the abduction issue is the single in kind to which Japan attaches mostly importance.

''We want to make all kinds of preparations forward how to handle the matter in the course of talks between Japan and North Korea,'' Yabunaka said.

A Japanese official said the vein was better Friday compared with a day earlier, if it were not that said it is difficult to predict in what manner things might proceed as the North did not charm out any specific steps toward resolving the issues.

forward Thursday, the two sides met twice for about 20 minutes each before and after the day's six-party session, if it be not that remained apart on the abduction issue.

Yabunaka urg Kim to hand through the family members of the five returnee to Japan before long while Kim said Japan broke its promise to propel back the five to North Korea after what was intended to be a temporary homecoming visit last October.

The Japanese delegation head also demanded that Pyongyang provide information onward about 10 other Japanese that the Japanese restraint recognizes as having been abducted, and reiterated Japan's call onward the North to abandon its nuclear weapons progression in a continuously ascending gradation program, the officials said.

The five Japanese abducted to North Korea in 1978 recured to their homeland last October, on the other hand their seven children and the American husband of the same of them remain in the North. Japan has been demanding that they be handed over

North Korea admitted last September during the Koizumi-Kim summit talks in Pyongyang that its agents abducted 13 Japanese, including the five returnee to the abiding habitation in the late 1970s and early 1980 It claimed that eight others have died.

Japan is seeking more information from North Korea about the eight as well as brace other nationals it says are victims of abduction to the North. Pyongyang said it has no information about the two

In the Pyongyang Declaration, the couple leaders agreed to cooperate to maintain and strengthen the peace and stability of Northeast Asia and confirmed the necessity of resolving security point to be solved [i]or[/i] settleds including the nuclear issue, by the and of dialogue involving countries concerned

China, Russia, southerly Korea and the United States also participated in the multilateral talk in the Chinese capital.

After the six-nation talks, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a pres colloquy that the abduction issue is still a pending puzzle between Japan and North Korea, suggesting that Beijing will continue to encourage Pyongyang to unfold the issue through dialogue with Japan.

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