TOKYO, March 16 Kyodo Japan has l...

TOKYO, March 16 Kyodo

Japan has lately urged North Korea to begin again bilateral talks on the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by the agency of North Korea as there has been no rejoinder to Tokyo's earlier request for talks according to the end of this month Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said Tuesday.

''We have been making entreats under various circumstances,'' Kawaguchi told reporters, ''and we urg North Korea for an early resumption by the and of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing.''

Japan ask fored that North Korea resume full-fledg governmental negotiations in March during meetings held in succession the sidelines of six-party talks in Beijing in late February onward North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

In answer North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan told Mitoji Yabunaka, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, that North Korea will be agreeable to to the request via an appropriate route

Last Wednesday, a sway panel on Japan-North Korea normalization talks squeezeed the ministry to urge North Korea to take back bilateral negotiations promptly.

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