TOKYO, Nov. 25 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATI...

TOKYO, Nov. 25 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH MORE remarks OF VICE FOREIGN MINISTER, KOIZUMI; CORRECTING CITY OF WEEKEND TALKS)

Japan said Monday it will be unable to take up again normalization talks with North Korea by means of the end of this month a deadline Pyongyang fix earlier, because of the ongoing dispute from one side of to the other the abductions of Japanese nationals.

Tokyo also said the sum of two units countries will fail to hold a pledge they made last month to imprison security talks this month for discussions about of that kind issues as Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program separately from the plenary normalization talks.

The revelations came after senior diplomats from each side reportedly failed to descry progress over the matter in informal talks held in Dalian, northeastern China, above the weekend.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and top rule officials did not elaborate. further Tokyo will step up efforts to possess the normalization talks in early December at the earliest by means of further informal talks, possibly high-level commons government sources said.

''Both of us want to restrain the (normalization talks) as quick as possible,'' Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi, the ministry's top bureaucrat, said at a pres conference

''But when we do, it has to be a meaningful dialogue,'' Takeuchi said, apparently referring to the ne for further informal or behind-the-scenes efforts to decipher differences over a family reunion between five Japanese abducted on Pyongyang in 1978 now forward a homecoming visit and their relatives in North Korea.

in succession the envisioned security talks, Takeuchi said, ''I have the feeling that it would be extremely difficult, at this stage, to clinch (the talks) in November.''

''We should not stick to a time (frame),'' the vice minister said.

Koizumi told reporters at his office sole that the Japanese sway ''will negotiate (with the North) patiently thus (the top negotiator-level talks) can be resum by dint of the year-end.''

The premier repeated Japan has to negotiate with the North ''patiently'' five times during several minutes of conversation.

Meanwhile, top control spokesman Yasuo Fukuda told reporters, ''I be warmed it may be difficult'' to keep possession of high-level normalization talks because there is not enough time to reduce differences over the abduction issue.

The chief cabinet secretary was referring to the informal talks in which the ministry's senior working-level official, Hitoshi Tanaka, saw little progres through the whole extent of the pending issues including the possibility of the reunion.

Tanaka, chief of the ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, had played a solution role in realizing the landmark family 17 summit between Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

Koizumi and Kim pledg to have the envisioned security talks in the Pyongyang Declaration they signed at the summit.

And Japan and North Korea agreed in the last session in succession normalization in Kuala Lumpur forward Oct. 29-30 to hold the security talks in November.

further top Japanese negotiator Katsunari Suzuki replied that Tokyo would take the matter of the timing for the nearest normalization talks home for consideration because it base his North Korean counterpart Jong Thae Hwa not cooperative in efforts to realize the family reunion.

The five abductees recured to their homeland Oct. 15 for the first time since being taken 24 years ago, leaving their family members in North Korea behind.

In late October, the Japanese restraint decided not to send the five back to North Korea, and demanded that Pyongyang allow their family members to approach to Japan.

North Korea has refused the suit saying Tokyo breached an agreement that the homecoming visit to Japan would solitary last for up to brace weeks.

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