TOKYO, Oct 31 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING ...

TOKYO, Oct 31 Kyodo

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Japan's chief delegate for normalization talks with North Korea told families of Japanese abduction victims Thursday the rule will need seven to 10 days to suit to Pyongyang's proposal to have the next round of negotiations in late November, a lawmaker said.

Ambassador Katsunari Suzuki told the families North Korea apparently wants to clutch the next round promptly on the contrary that Japan cannot agree to a further meeting unles there are vistas of results in the talks, according to Katsuei Hirasawa, a senior member of a form into groups of lawmakers supporting the abductees and their families.

Suzuki and other command officials met with the families of Japanese abducted to North Korea between 1977 and 1983 and members of the legislators clump at a Tokyo hotel to brief them about the bilateral talks held Tuesday and Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur

agent Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said at the meeting the command is preparing for him and Kyoko Nakayama, a special adviser at the Cabinet Secretariat in succession the abduction issue, to visit five surviving abductees, who are generally in Japan, according to Hirasawa, a House of Representatives member from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

Japan also wants to plant up a task force of master-hands to discuss how to deal with the abductees' situation, as talks in succession the issue are likely to be postponeed due to Pyongyang's rejection of Tokyo's demand that North Korea allow the children and a husband of the five returnee to approach to Japan, Abe was quot as saying.

Abe and Nakayama are look fored to brief the five returnee in their hometowns nearest Tuesday and Wednesday on the issue of this week's talks forward normalizing ties and the Japanese government's intention to preserve working on getting their families to Japan.

Yasushi Chimura and his wife Fukie, the one and the other 47 and from Fukui Prefecture Kaoru Hasuike, 45 and his wife Yukiko, 46 and Hitomi Soga, 43 from Niigata Prefecture arrived in Japan upon Oct. 15 for the first time since they were abducted to North Korea in 1978

Suzuki was quot as telling the abductees' families, ''I tried my best on the contrary could not get results. I am ashamed of my powerlessness and be excited sorry.''

At a pres colloquy following the meeting, the families reiterated their appreciation to the Japanese sway for standing firm ''like not at all before'' in presenting their views in the talks with North Korea and urg it to continue with that attitude.

Hasuike's senior brother Toru said he and the other families have ''no intention at all'' of sending the five returnee back to North Korea and the five have not shown any opposition to that stance.

Although he said he room for expectations the government will ''continue negotiating with a muscular feeling,'' Toru, 47, also give utterance toed displeasure that the abduction victims are being used as a diplomatic tool in the bilateral negotiations.

''We are not special populace and we want to lead normal lives,'' Toru said.

Earlier, Abe told a of recent origins conference that Pyongyang must say according to what date it intends to allow the children and a husband of the abductees to ensue to Japan as a prerequisite for Tokyo to agree to put a date for the nearest round of normalization talks.

Abe said the direction will continue to pursue security matters as it is as the problem of North Korea's suspected nuclear weapons exhibition in the bilateral senior official-level security talks, which the pair sides agreed to launch in November.

North Korea ''must answer to these issues,'' Abe said, referring to the nuclear program as well as Tokyo's demand that Pyongyang provide more information to verify its earlier report that eight of the 13 Japanese it abducted or lur to North Korea have died.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi uttered Japan's intention to negotiate steadily with North Korea about the date for the families in North Korea to visit Japan, while indicating the road ahead may not be smooth

''This is a negotiation, for a like reason it will not go easily. First of all, it was unthinkable for the five (abductees) to revert to Japan, but it was realized. I know they (future talks) will be difficult,'' Koizumi told reporters at his office.

Japan and North Korea held the 12th spherical of negotiations aimed at establishing diplomatic relations in the Malaysian capital, resuming so dialogue following a two-year suspension.

In the talks, North Korea repeled Japan's demand that the families of the five returnee be allowed to be due [i]or[/i] owing to Japan, and in turn round demanded that the five get back to North Korea, as previously agreed to between officials of the sum of two units governments.

Japan is station to reinforce contacts with North Korea between the sides of various channels in an effort to bring the families of the five returnee to Japan as well as to finish more information from North Korea in succession the abduction issue, Japanese regulation sources said.

The conduct is also considering sending a next to the first fact-finding mission to North Korea upon the abduction issue, following common sent from late September to early October, according to the sources.

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