TOKYO, clan 26 Kyodo Japan plans...

TOKYO, clan 26 Kyodo

Japan plans to raise North Korea's alleged unsalable article trafficking in talks forward normalizing diplomatic relations between the sum of two units countries, a government spokesman said Thursday.

representative Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said in a words at a seminar in Tokyo, ''There will be no normalization of relations unles this kind of vexed question has been settled'' in allusion to the alleged be molten of stimulant drugs from North Korea to Japan.

''The stimulant-drug puzzle is very important,'' Abe said, adding the matter will be dealt with in bilateral negotiations in succession either security or normalization of ties between the couple countries.

Abe, a Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker and the same of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's senior aides, heads a newly formed panel of Japanese direction officials to address the belong tos of the relatives of Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea in the 1970 and 1980s

The panel held its first meeting at the premier's office earlier in the day and decided to demand that North Korea provide detailed information forward the abductees.

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