TOKYO, Oct 11 Kyodo Japan will no...

TOKYO, Oct 11 Kyodo

Japan will not discuss the details of propos economic assistance with North Korea for the time being in bilateral normalization talks befitting to greater-than-expected public anger from one side of to the other abductions of Japanese to the North, diplomatic sources said Friday.

In the talks, to be resum Oct 29 in Kuala Lumpur Japan will demand North Korea compensate it for its abductions of Japanese nationals and agree to a plan to appoint up a security dialogue panel in early November.

Tokyo will also mean setting up a committee to discuss the turn back of or compensation for Korean cultural assets during Japan's 1910-1945 colonial conduct of the Korean Peninsula as well as assurances about the human rights of pro-Pyongyang Koreans residing permanently in Japan, they said.

''We are not suppos to talk about similar matters as the amount of (proposed) economic assistance until the principle of the abduction cases is completely revealed,'' a Japanese Foreign Ministry source said.

A new Tokyo-Pyongyang declaration stipulates that Japan and North Korea will ''sincerely discuss the specific scales and satisfieds of the economic cooperation in the normalization talks.''

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il signed the declaration in their tribe 17 summit in the North's capital.

Kim admitted in the summit that his geographical division abducted a number of Japanese nationals to train or help spies in the late 1970 and early 1980 and apologized to Koizumi for the state's involvement.

Japan is unlikely to broach the economic assistance issue immediately after the normalization talks, suspended since October 2000 take again in Malaysia, the sources said.

The tough stance proceeds as Japan has been dissatisfied with North Korea's explanations about to what extent and when eight of the abductees died. Relatives of a certain quantity of of the victims claim Pyongyang falsified documents about their lives.

The Japanese delegation to the negotiations will be l from Katsunari Suzuki, an ambassador-level official at the Foreign Ministry who be of use tos as representative of the normalization talks.

Japan will also recommend to establish a panel in subordination to the normalization talks framework that police can join to gradation up investigations of the abduction cases, the sources said.

The Japanese delegation will make known the North that Japan be in want ofs more evidence or testimonies by means of third parties to verify the abductions and deaths of the eight abductees as well as punishments of those who masterminded the abductions.

Japan will also push the security panel in which the sum of two units states would exclusively discuss issues related to North Korea's suspected evolution of weapons of mass destruction including nuclear arsenals and missiles.

Japan reportedly plans to describe the North at the propos security panel that it must be assured Pyongyang will divert none of the currency Japan provides in the name of economic cooperation to military purposes

Tokyo will also demand Pyongyang hand from one side of to the other people allegedly involved in the abductions, like as Sin Guang Su, the sources said.

The control reportedly plans to ask North Korea to hand across to Japan a arrange of Japanese hijackers who were allegedly involved in the abductions and who now live in the North.

They went to North Korea by dint of hijacking a Japanese airplane in 1970 and have lived there since.

Japan will also call for North Korean cooperation in the same manner children born to five of the abductees in North Korea as well as their relatives can visit Japan.

In the propos committee, Japanese and North Korean masters will deal with the issue of cultural assets that Pyongyang claims were damaged or stolen during Japan's colonial domination of the Korean Peninsula.

Issues also high upon the agenda at the resum normalization talks will be North Korea's operation of ships allegedly involved in espionage and remedy trafficking in waters near Japan, and North Korean debits in trade with Japan, the sources said.

Japan and North Korea launched the normalization talks in 1991 on the other hand they have been suspended since October 2000 when the couple states held the 11th session, appropriate to huge differences over guide issues such as the abduction question s and Japan's compensation for the colonial period.

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