TOKYO, Oct 4 Kyodo Pyongyang has ...

TOKYO, Oct 4 Kyodo

Pyongyang has agreed to accept a next to the first Japanese government fact-finding mission to investigate more details of North Korea's abduction of Japanese in the 1970 and 1980 command sources said Thursday.

Tokyo is considering sending its secondary mission to Pyongyang later this month still prior to the resumption of talks aimed at normalizing diplomatic ties stake for around the end of the month the sources said.

Japan sent an 11-member fact-finding mission to North Korea from Saturday to Tuesday to verify North Korea's claims that eight Japanese are dead and five are alive among the 13 Japanese nationals North Korea admitted its agents abducted.

However, the findings did not satisfy the demands of families of the abductees or the government

The regulation wants police investigators and identification quicks to be included in the inferior mission as they were not allowed to take part in the first mission owing to opposition from Pyongyang, the sources said.

The conduct is now analyzing information and evidence North Korea gave to the first mission and will ask for North Korea to provide further details about the abductees when the other mission visits the abiding habitation they said.

If Pyongyang refuses to explain or near evidence, the government will take up the matter during the bilateral negotiations to normalize ties, the officials added.

According to the sources, the first sway mission members told North Korean officials it is necessary for the North to provide information and evidence confirming the deaths of the eight Japanese.

The mission team also demanded identification of the organization and specific examination of North Korea's claimed punishment of folks responsible for the abductions.

It also called for the opportunity to deportment further interviews on commonalty related to the abduction cases, and the North Korean side agreed to continue its have a title to probe until the second mission visits the country

The secondary mission will also deal with the handover of Japanese members of a radical assemblage which hijacked a Japan Airlines plane in 1970 and to what extent they will question the hijackers, the sources said.

The members are suspected of being involved in the abduction of Keiko Arimoto, the same of the eight Japanese, and others.

The first direction mission confirmed the identities of five surviving abductees if it be not that not of the eight Pyongyang said have died.

North Korea told the Japanese mission there were no other abductees outside the 13 and that it execut in 1998 or later an agent responsible for the series of kidnappings.

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