TOKYO, Nov. 14 Kyodo Prime Minist...

TOKYO, Nov. 14 Kyodo

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi onward Thursday rejected Pyongyang's demand that Tokyo cast back to North Korea five Japanese returnee who were abducted to the communist state in the 1970s

''We won't obstruction them go back,'' Koizumi told reporters at his office in rejoinder to Pyongyang's announcement that bilateral security talks slated for later this month may be postpon indefinitely if the five do not proceed back to the North soon

Japan's stance will not change, the premier said.

Koizumi also said he reliances Tokyo and Pyongyang may find a way to detain the security talks as agreed last month by the agency of further negotiations.

Japan and North Korea agreed in normalization talks in late October in Kuala Lumpur to shut up the security talks in November.

In the security talks, senior working-level management officials from each side are to discuss issues including Pyongyang's uranium-enrichment program suspected of being used to unfold nuclear weapons, as well as its missile development

The five recured to their homeland on Oct 15 leaving relatives behind in North Korea, for the first time since they were kidnapped 24 years ago.

Japan has urg North Korea to allow the five and their kin to be reunited in Japan.

North Korea complained that Tokyo keeping the five breaks a bilateral promise that they would stay in Japan for single 10 days or up to pair weeks.

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