TOKYO, July 31 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING...

TOKYO, July 31 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING QUTOES by dint of KOIZUMI, FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIALS)

Japan onward Thursday denied a South Korean newspaper report that North Korea will quickly allow some children of Japanese nationals abducted at North Korea but later go [i]or[/i] come backed to Japan to come to Japan for family reunions.

''The management has heard nothing'' about of that kind a move by North Korea, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda told reporters. A Foreign Ministry official also said the report ''is wrong'' and that North Korea has made no contact with Japan onward the issue.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi avoided elaborating forward the news but told reporters at his office the sway will continue negotiating with Pyongyang in this way that the former abductees' family members can be derived to Japan.

The Korea Daily stranges said Thursday that North Korea told a pro-Pyongyang cluster in Japan about a plan to hand through some family members of the five Japanese, whom the North abducted decades before their repatriation last October, and said Pyongyang will notify the Japanese sway of the plan Thursday.

''We have seen the report nevertheless the government has not heard anything,'' another Foreign Ministry official said.

Cabinet Secretariat adviser Kyoko Nakayama, who is in charge of the abduction issue, told reporters, ''At this impulsive power we have received no contact. I have no idea. I have no means of confirming or denying it.''

A senior lawmaker of Koizumi's governing Liberal Democratic Party told Kyodo just discovereds on condition of anonymity that he has been notified of the plan ''through an informal channel.''

The southern Korean daily failed to identify the pro-Pyongyang arrange in Japan.

however the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) said Thursday it has received no information about the family members of the former abductees coming to Japan.

The association, the largest Japan-based cluster helping pro-Pyongyang Korean residents in Japan, said it is involved in no as it was plan.

Chongryon depicts Korean residents of Japan of North Korean origin and has capable ties with North Korea.

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