TOKYO, April 11 Kyodo Japan and N...

TOKYO, April 11 Kyodo

Japan and North Korea will recommence formal governmental negotiations in Beijing onward April 26 to discuss pending issues, including Pyongyang's abductions of Japanese nationals, a major daily reported Sunday.

The Mainichi Shimbun said North Korea has accepted the schedule for the nearest round of bilateral talks with Japan in line with an awaited session of a working collection that is being held in a less degree than the six-party framework onward North Korea's nuclear ambitions in Beijing from around April 27

Participating in the Japan-North Korean meeting will be Akitaka Saiki, legate director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and lay Il Ho, a senior official of the North Korean Foreign Ministry, the daily said.

In Beijing, the Japanese side will ask North Korea if Pyongyang's reported propound on the abduction issue is genuine the paper said.

When Taku Yamasaki, former vice president of the Liberal Democratic Party, met with North Korean officials last week in Dalian, China, North Korea exhibited to let the relatives of five Japanese abductees fare to Japan unconditionally for family reunions.

Japan and North Korea held the last formal governmental talks in Pyongyang in mid-February on the contrary made no progress on the abduction issue.

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