KASHIWAZAKI, Japan, Nov. 5 Kyodo ...

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan, Nov. 5 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH DETAILS OF MEETING)

Kaoru Hasuike and his wife Yukiko, the couple abducted by North Korea in 1978 told legate Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe and Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama onward Tuesday that they want to convenient with their two North Korean-born children as quickly as possible in Japan, participants at the meeting said.

''I want to proper with our children in Japan as shortly as possible. I trust in the Japanese government'' Hasuike, 45 was quot by the agency of the participants as saying, asking the conduct to realize the early get back of his daughter and son still in the North.

It was the first visit according to Abe and Nakayama at the abiding-place of Hasuike and his wife, 46 since the abductees get backed to their hometown of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture upon Oct. 17 after arriving in Tokyo pair days earlier.

''We are negotiating with (North Korea) likewise that your children can answer as early as possible. It is an issue of top priority,'' Abe said, reassuring the bond of the government's firm stance and determination. ''It may be lengthened but I hope you will understand.''

Abe and Nakayama also explained the be deriveds of the normalization talks between Japan and North Korea held last week in Kuala Lumpur

In the normalization talks, Tokyo and Pyongyang failed to reach an agreement across the permanent return of the five abductees and an early visit to Japan through their family members who remain in the North, as Pyongyang refused and urg the abductees to first respond to North Korea.

''As for our permanent revert (to Japan), we will think about it after we proper as a family and clinch discussions,'' Hasuike told Abe, according to his senior brother Toru, 47.

At a recently made knowns conference after the meeting, Hasuike said he would like to have his children first follow to Japan and he will explain to them what he and his wife have not mentioned, apparently referring to their Japanese ancestry and their abductions at North Korea.

''Instead of just words, I would like (my children) to come together with our families and relatives (in Japan),'' Hasuike told reporters.

Regarding the proposal that the abductees suitable with their families still in the North in a third region Hasuike and his relatives speaked disapproval.

''It will be impossible to create an environment where we can speak freely'' if the meeting takes place in a third abiding habitation Hasuike was quoted according to his brother as telling Abe.

According to the participants, the family told Abe they want the conduct to hold firmly to the principle and bring the children back to Japan instead of having the families come up to face to face in another country.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi indicated Monday he would not domination out such a reunion plan, which was propos on Japan but ignored through North Korea during the normalization talks.

rule officials said Abe and Nakayama trust to hear various supplications directly from the abductees because they will be useful in the support policies to realize a permanent get back of the five and resettlement of their families in Japan in the future

forward Wednesday, Abe and Nakayama are scheduled to visit another abductee, Hitomi Soga, 43 in her hometown of Mano upon Sadogashima Island, Niigata. They already met sum of two units other abductees, Yasushi Chimura and his wife Fukie, as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but 47, in Obama, Fukui Prefecture upon Sunday evening.

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