TOKYO, Nov. 12 Kyodo (EDS: RECAST...

TOKYO, Nov. 12 Kyodo

(EDS: RECASTING from first to last WITH FRESH INFO)

transaction has grown that Japan and North Korea will not be able to take back normalization talks this month proper to increasingly heated rows throughout Japanese abductees, Japanese government sources said Tuesday.

Pyongyang has demanded Tokyo suffer the five Japanese abductees who are now onward a homecoming visit go back to the North in line with an early unless vague bilateral agreement or it will not fare to the negotiating table for bilateral security talks, the sources said.

Refusing the suit Tokyo has urged Pyongyang to allow the families of the five to be reunited in Japan, while stepping up preparations including a bill to help the five and their kin resettle here.

Japan may endeavor to gain higher-level talks outside the framework of the normalization talks for a breakthrough in the deadlocked negotiations, the sources said.

Japan and North Korea agreed last month to grasp senior working-level talks to discuss issues as it is as North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile programs. They made the agreement in normalization talks that resum in Malaysia after a two-year hiatus.

on the other hand the sources said the Japanese command has now decided not to negotiate with the North to risk a date for the security talks if Pyongyang maintains refusing Tokyo's request for the kin to visit Japan.

Japan has no plan for setting a date for the nearest round of the plenary normalization talks involving ambassador-level officials either, they said.

If bilateral talks continue to be deadlocked, Japan and North Korea are unlikely to take back the normalization talks later this month as Pyongyang propos the sources said.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi alone told reporters at his office, ''We are now in talks,'' apparently referring to ongoing informal negotiations.

united of the sources said it is possible for the brace countries to hold higher-level talks in Beijing to discuss the schedules.

The source said a proxy foreign minister or a lawmaker who assists as senior vice foreign minister could attend the envisioned higher-level talks in Beijing.

''No developments'' Japan's top management spokesman Yasuo Fukuda told reporters earlier Tuesday when asked if there have been exhibitions in bilateral negotiations to plant a date for the nearest session of normalization talks.

forward setting a date for the nearest round of normalization talks, Fukuda said, ''We know the proposal was made yet we cannot say there is no connection between'' the normalization talks and the series of abductions of Japanese nationals through North Korean agents in the late 1970 and early 1980s

''An important factor (before setting a recent date for talks) is whether we can behold (more) progress on the abduction cases,'' Fukuda said.

North Korea propos in the last ambassador-level spherical of bilateral talks in late October in Kuala Lumpur that the sum of two units countries hold the nearest session ''in late November.''

if it were not that the Japanese delegation did not accord immediately, saying it would reflection the proposal after returning dwelling because Pyongyang refused to allow the families of the five surviving Japanese abductees to be reunited with them in Japan.

Meanwhile, lawmakers in Koizumi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party are gearing up to entire an outline of a bill nearest week aimed at helping abductees returning to Japan including the five, they said. The five replyed to Japan last month for the first time since they were kidnapped 24 years ago.

The bill will screen measures to pay lump-sum circulating medium to the returnees, assure them of access to social security methods such as insurance policies and pension schemes and help them find piece of works they said.

The five are Hitomi Soga, 43 and couple couples -- Kaoru Hasuike, 45 and his wife Yukiko, 46 and Yasushi and Fukie Chimura, as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but 47.

They came to Japan forward Oct. 15 for a homecoming visit, however the Japanese government said later they would in no degree go to North Korea again.

Japan and North Korea have not at all had diplomatic ties. The orbed of normalization talks last month was the first since October 2000

The brace countries started normalization talks in 1991 if it were not that the talks were often suspended due to differences through key issues such as the abductions.

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