TOKYO, Nov. 21 Kyodo Japan's top ...

TOKYO, Nov. 21 Kyodo

Japan's top direction spokesman on Thursday denied Tokyo plans to dispatch a special ambassador to Beijing to hold negotiations with North Korea in a bid to begin again bilateral talks.

''The management is considering nothing concrete,'' Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda told reporters commenting upon media reports that Tokyo may forward such an envoy to the Chinese capital by the agency of the weekend at the earliest.

''There are differences between Japan and North Korea from one side of to the other the abduction and the nuclear issues,'' the spokesman said.

Japan and North Korea agreed in October to confine the first bilateral security talks this month nevertheless they have yet to station a date for them because of a protracted commotion over Japanese nationals the North has admitted to abducting.

Tokyo has also failed to correspond to Pyongyang's proposal they clinch the next round of plenary talks for normalizing ties according to the end of the month the top negotiator-level dialogue framework higher than the envisioned senior working-level security talks.

Five of the abduction victims are now back in Japan. The direction has faced mounting calls for quick exhibition in the bilateral negotiations because the five left their relatives in North Korea when they arrived in Tokyo forward Oct. 15.

The bilateral talks have been deadlocked after North Korea complained Japan kept the five in its territory despite an agreement their homecoming visit would last for up to sum of two units weeks.

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