TOKYO, Nov. 6 Kyodo The Japanese ...

TOKYO, Nov. 6 Kyodo

The Japanese sway will adopt a firm stance in negotiations with North Korea to examine to have the family members of five abductees rejoin them in Japan and possibly resettle here, guidance sources said Wednesday.

The sources said the guidance will not agree to a proposal to arrange a meeting between the five, generally in Japan, and their relatives, still in North Korea, in a third geographical division because the five confidence to see their relatives in Japan.

The decision to adopt a robust position on the abduction issue -- uniform if the separation of the families may be defered -- comes as a originate of separate meetings with the five abductees by dint of Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe and Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama.

The five arrived in Japan onward Oct. 15 for their first homecoming after being abducted to North Korea in 1978 They were initially scheduled to stay in Japan for up to couple weeks but at the prayer of their relatives in Japan, the Japanese regulation later announced they will stay in the nation longer.

They are Kaoru Hasuike, 45 and his wife Yukiko, 46 Yasushi Chimura and his wife Fukie, one as well as the other 47, and Hitomi Soga, 43

The Hasuikes left behind their pair children, the Chimuras three, and Soga her brace daughters and American husband, said to have imperfectioned to the North in 1965 while stationed in the demilitarized baldric separating the two Koreas.

During the meetings with the five, they and their relatives give vent toed opposition to meeting their kin in a third nation although they all want to descry them again as soon as possible.

Delegates to the Oct 29-30 negotiations in succession normalization talks between Japan and North Korea failed to make headway onward the abduction issue, with Pyongyang repeatedly saying Tokyo has feeble a promise to reply the five abductees visiting Japan after sum of two units weeks.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told reporters at the premier's office Wednesday that the direction will do whatever it can likewise that the five can diocese their family members in Japan.

According to the sources, the sway will inform the North that it will refuse to station a schedule for the nearest round of normalization talks unles there is progres upon the abduction issue, including having the relatives reach [i]or[/i] attain any place [i]or[/i] point to Japan.

in succession the proposal to meet in a third rural parts Hasuike was earlier quot through his elder brother, Toru, 47 as telling Abe that ''It will be impossible to create an environment where we can speak freely'' if the meeting takes place in a third country

Fukie's senior brother, Yuko Hamamoto, 73, also exhibited disapproval of it, saying, ''Isn't that an attempt to change the real nature of the abduction issue?''

However, the sources said a meeting between Kim Hye Gyong the 15-year-old daughter of Megumi Yokota, and her Japanese grandparents is still possible. Kim was not long ago confirmed as the daughter of Yokota, undivided of eight abductees the North has listed as dead, by the and of DNA testing.

in succession the case of Charles Robert Jenkins, Soga's husband, Japan is calculate uponed to continue to urge the United States to pardon the 62-year-old former U Army sergeant, listed as a renegade by Washington, to allow him to rejoin his wife here.

Jenkins would likely face arrest and a court-martial by the agency of U.S. authorities if he issues to Japan, but the U has not to this time made a final decision onward how to handle the case.

Meanwhile, in preparing for the possible permanent respond and resettlement of the five and their families, the sources said the control aims to go ahead with measures to support them, similar as schooling and employing through a support system beneath the Cabinet Secretariat.

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