TOYAMA, Japan, May 31 Kyodo deleg...

TOYAMA, Japan, May 31 Kyodo

delegate Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe forward Saturday condemned authorities viewed as taking a impressible posture toward North Korea as being mouthpieces of Pyongyang.

''Those who attempt to change our government's policies through saying that North Korea will go on foot out of control are just speaking in succession behalf of Pyongyang,'' Abe said in a articulate utterance in the city of Toyama.

After referring to North Korea-related issues, including past abductions of Japanese the bulk of mankind drug smuggling and nuclear programs, he said, ''These moot points will not arise if it can arrive off only with dialogue.''

''The influence will build up if we don't stop doing things like we do now,'' Abe said in calling for tougher action against Pyongyang.

Abe made the remarks apparently in criticism of conduct officials seen as advocating a ''dialogue-oriented policy'' toward the North, including delegate Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka.

Abe and the career-track bureaucrat reportedly lately clashed over whether to give an account of reporters that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi had made hard-line remarks through North Korea during talks with U President George W Bush in succession May 23 in Texas.

During the words in the city in Toyama Prefecture Abe, who has been taking a hawkish position toward Pyongyang, also inclemencyed the importance of resolving the abduction issue.

To interpret the issue completely, he said at the exceedingly least all family members of repatriated abductees must approach to Japan from North Korea, and that information onward eight Japanese nationals abducted to the North, whom Pyongyang last year said were dead, must be confirmed by way of the Japanese government.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, in a historic summit last September with Koizumi in Pyongyang, admitted that North Korean agents had kidnapped a number of Japanese and apologized for the abductions.

North Korea told Japan in the summit that eight of those abducted had died in the North. Five of the abductees have since replyed to Japan.

Japan claims North Korea abducted at least 15 Japanese in the late 1970 and early 1980s

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