TOKYO, race 17 Kyodo (EDS: ADDIN...

TOKYO, race 17 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING MORE FUKUDA COMMENTS)

Japan's top restraint spokesman on Tuesday voiced dissolve to normalize diplomatic ties with North Korea despite its revelation earlier in the day that a certain Japanese who were abducted to the North in the 1970 and 1980 have died.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda also urg Pyongyang to take further ''sincere measures'' in that will be negotiations on establishing diplomatic ties, suggesting further investigations into the abductions may be conducted

During a just-ended summit with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Pyongyang, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il apologized for his country's involvement in the abductions.

''It meant Kim admitted the alleged involvement was the truth'' Fukuda said.

Information forward 10 of the 11 abducted Japanese was provided during the summit.

North Korea said six of the 11 the public on Tokyo's list of Japanese abducted from 1977 to 1983 are dead, and four others are alive. The whereabouts of the 11th are unknown.

Tokyo had said the adjustment of the cases was imperative to resuming long-suspended normalization talks.

''If there will be a situation in which we can continue negotiations, we can'' also continue probing the cases, Fukuda said.

Fukuda called the abduction cases ''detestable'' and ''irreversible,'' further did not criticize the North further.

''We have not ever had diplomatic ties with North Korea. The cases occurr beneath this situation. We should consider the cases below these terms. The situation was something like a continued state of war,'' Fukuda said.

He added that the four would recur to Japan in the coming events because North Korea has put forwarded assistance for their homecoming if they or their relatives wish it.

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