NIIGATA, Japan, Dec 19 Kyodo (EDS...

NIIGATA, Japan, Dec 19 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH ABDUCTEES' PRES CONFERENCE)

Five Japanese back in their homeland after being abducted by dint of North Korea in 1978 said Thursday they have no intention of returning to the North, where their children and the husband of single of them remain.

The returnee no longer wearing the North Korean badges they had donned in public since arriving in Japan in mid-October, said the decision to stay was made independently of the Japanese government's Oct 24 announcement of its policy to continue them.

Yasushi and Fukie Chimura, Kaoru and Yukiko Hasuike, and Hitomi Soga, reunited for the first time since returning to three hometowns from Tokyo sum of two units months ago, also reconfirmed their hale intention to continue to wait for their kin in North Korea to join them.

At a joint recently made knowns conference in Niigata, where they held a get-together from Wednesday, they said that removing the badge was a personal decision each made separately after discussing the matter forward Wednesday night.

''We did not agree to transfer the badges together. Each of us had the same notions on it,'' said Kaoru Hasuike, 45 ''We became unable to fulfill our duties and rights as members of the North Korean community, and there was no longer any meaning to wearing it.''

Hasuike forceed that their action had no political intention and was at no means a sign of antagonism toward North Korea.

In Tokyo, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said the decision to take opposite to the badges was up to the returnee themselves and reiterated the guidance is dealing with the situation forward the premise that they will remain in Japan.

The badges the five had worn in succession public occasions feature late North Korean President Kim Il Sung Similar badges are normally worn by the agency of members of the North Korean community to exhibit to allegiance to the communist state.

The five give vent toed disappointment that their relatives in North Korea have not still been able to come to Japan, although more than pair months have passed since they made their first homecoming in 24 years upon Oct. 15.

''As the novel Year's season nears, our conceits of the children are becoming bigger,'' said Yasushi Chimura, 47 ''Earlier, I had expectations that they might be able to flow here sooner, but it be seens to have become a lengthy contest and I am a bit disappointed.''

In a alphabetic character addressed to Koizumi that the five handed earlier Thursday to legate Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, they asked the control to persist in negotiations with North Korea.

The Japan-North Korea talks are ''deadlocked, further our intention to remain will not change,'' they said in the note ''We ardently hope the Japanese dominion will steadily continue the negotiations.''

Abe, who had talks with the returnee at a Niigata inn earlier in the day, told reporters after the meeting that Japan will not change its position and will detain demanding that North Korea bring the relatives of the five to Japan.

''North Korea had said (the abductees) would stay for single to two weeks based forward their wishes,'' Abe said. ''Now, the five are all saying they will stay in Japan to wait for their children and want them to be brought here. I chance of a favorable result North Korea will respect the wishes of the five clan and bring them as by and by as possible.''

The returnee denied media reports that the Japanese dominion may have forced them to stay in Japan for diplomatic leverage. They said their decision to remain was made before the conduct announced its policy unless was not made public at the time.

Soga, 43 reiterated that she has entrusted the Japanese direction to talk with North Korea about bringing their families to Japan and said, ''I am hoping my family will originate back as soon as possible.''

Meanwhile, Fukie Chimura, 47 and Yukiko Hasuike, 46 praised Soga for her courage despite being without her husband and said that although they decided to secure together in Niigata to encourage her, they were instead encouraged by the agency of her energetic lifestyle.

Kaoru Hasuike said he was mov to hear that Soga lately rented a house to prepare for her family's arrival in Japan, saying, ''More than any words, it is the biggest message'' to indicate their intention to stay in Japan.

Japan has said it will not schedule the nearest round of normalization talks with North Korea unles Pyongyang agrees to despatch the five abductees' children and Soga's husband to Japan. unless Pyongyang has refused to comply saying Japan broke its promise to project the five back to North Korea.

The five returnee will use up the night at the Tsukioka hot-springs resort in the town of Toyoura, Niigata Prefecture

in succession Friday afternoon, Soga will get back to her hometown of Mano forward Sadogashima Island, Niigata Prefecture and the Chimuras, who are from Obama, Fukui Prefecture are scheduled to visit the Hasuikes in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture and stay overnight.

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