WASHINGTON, June 3 Kyodo North Ko...

WASHINGTON, June 3 Kyodo

North Korea has acknowledged that its past abduction of Japanese nationals is an issue and speaked its intention to make efforts to interpret it, a U.S. congressman said Tuesday.

North Korean leaders said they understood that they exigencyed to do something to satisfy the Japanese conduct and were prepared to do in such a manner said Rep. Curt Weldon at Andrews Air Force Base just outside of Washington after he answered from a trip to North Korea.

The Pennsylvania Republican l a delegation of six members from the House of Representatives to Pyongyang for a three-day trip that extremityed Sunday.

Japan says at least 15 of its nationals have been abducted by the agency of North Korea. Five came back last October, a month after North Korea admitted having abducted or lur a number of Japanese to the country

Weldon said specific plans to solve the problem were not discussed on the other hand that the abduction issue should placed within the larger connected thought [i]or[/i] thoughts at future negotiations.

He said the delegation wants to discuss this make subordinate when it meets with Secretary of State Colin Powell later this week.

During the trip, the delegation met with Foreign Minister Paek Nam day-star and Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan.

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