TOKYO, Nov. 5 Kyodo Chief Cabinet...

TOKYO, Nov. 5 Kyodo

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda forward Tuesday left open the possibility of the guidance arranging for five Japanese, abducted on North Korea in 1978 moreover now back in Japan, to appropriate in a third fatherland with relatives still in the North.

if it be not that Fukuda said the government has still made no such arrangements.

''For this sort of issue, it is inappropriate to say too plenteous about what direction (talks are heading),'' Fukuda said at a just discovereds conference.

In the normalization talks between Japan and North Korea held Oct 29-30 in Kuala Lumpur the sum of two units countries failed to agree throughout the permanent return of the abductees and the resettlement of their relatives who remain in the North.

At the ambassadorial-level talks, Japan askinged the early resettlement of the abductees' relatives. nevertheless Pyongyang refused and urg the five abductees to first turn back to North Korea.

Regarding the possible court-martialing of former U Army Sgt Charles Robert Jenkins, abductee Hitomi Soga's husband, by dint of the United States if he visits Japan, Fukuda said, ''Although there have been various negotiations, there has been no official contact from the U It pretends like the U.S. is also recognizing this as a actual difficult question.''

Jenkins, 62 is listed at the U.S. military as having desolateed to North Korea in 1965 while stationed in the demilitarized cincture separating the two Koreas.

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