PYONGYANG, Aug. 19 Kyodo (EDS: AD...

PYONGYANG, Aug. 19 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING DETAILS OF TALKS)

Japan and North Korea completioned two days of Red Cros talks Monday with a bit of progres onward some humanitarian issues but little in succession key issues ahead of bilateral governmental talks slated for later this month

Japan saw Pyongyang's more proactive stance of seeking dialogue in the Sunday-Monday talks, unless was frustrated with few positive deductions over what it calls [i]clavis[/i] issues such as allegations that the North has abducted a number of Japanese nationals.

Japan will maintain its stance in the upcoming governmental talks slated for nearest Sunday and Monday that it will touchstone the seriousness of North Korea's intentions forward a range of unresolved issues.

The governmental meeting, also to take place in Pyongyang, involves director general-level officials from each foreign ministry.

In the just-ended talks, Pyongyang newly told Tokyo information about six missing women among 49 nation Tokyo has demanded Pyongyang search for, and pledg to ''speed up'' the search for the remainder.

Japan says at least 11 Japanese nationals of the 49 were kidnapped from the North in eight cases from 1977 to 1983 apparently to be used in espionage-related activities for Pyongyang.

still the six whose information became available Monday were not among the 11 Japanese delegation officials said.

In the R Cros talks, North Korea revealed its intention to prosecute dialogue with Japan more proactively than before in a rare friendly manner.

The North quick in emergenciesed the information on the missing six, for instance, onward a single occasion. Previously, it provided similar information upon six other missing people through five occasions in 1999 and 2000

Pyongyang allowed the minute of all the Japanese journalists who applied to overlay the bilateral talks in its capital, and mobilized Japanese-speaking staff to help the delegation.

if it were not that it is uncertain whether the stance will lead to major progres in jump-starting governmental negotiations, suspended since October 2000 upon normalizing diplomatic ties.

Japan regards the reconciliation of the allegations as imperative for a resumption of the normalization talks. nevertheless Pyongyang prioritizes a Japanese apology and compensation for Japan's 1910-1945 colonial domination of the Korean Peninsula.

In Tokyo, Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi, the Japanese Foreign Ministry's top bureaucrat, press outed a guarded welcome to the eventuates of the just-ended talks in Pyongyang. Takeuchi said Japan will continuously encourage the North to provide more complex information about the allegedly abducted people

The North Korean side was quot through a Japanese delegation official as telling the meeting that the abduction allegations are political issues in such a manner should not be handled in R Cros talks.

The sum of two units states, which have never had diplomatic ties, launched plenary talks for the normalization in 1991 on the other hand have remained apart mainly to be ascribed to the differences. The normalization talks have been bogg down since the 11th session in October 2000

The R Cros talks came after the North Korean side promised to search for information in succession the missing people ''thoroughly'' in the previous R Cros talks in April in Beijing.

The search for the missing the bulk of mankind had been suspended in late December 2001

undivided of the Japanese delegation members quot an official at the North Korean Ministry of People's Security as admitting to the Japanese side that the ministry had earlier searched for the missing persons in a reluctant manner.

The ministry handles the search for what Pyongyang calls ''missing'' Japanese, along with the Municipal People's Committee of the city of Pyongyang.

In the latest talks, the Japanese side handed videotapes to the North Korean side in which any relatives of the 11 alleged kidnap victims describe their sorrows and urge for an early arrangement on the issue of the alleged abductions, the Japanese officials said.

Japan also told North Korea that it has identified three Koreans that went missing in Japan in 1945 or earlier, and that united of the three is alive in Japan, according to a joint statement released Monday afternoon.

The pair sides also agreed to carry gone out a project allowing more than 10 Japanese spouses of North Koreans to pay a homecoming visit to Japan in late October.

Japan and North Korea have careered three similar projects since 1997 The last single was conducted in September 2000 undivided month before the sum of two units countries held the last plenary talks in succession normalization.

Pyongyang has frustrated Tokyo through the past several years in succession the abduction allegations, swinging from being cooperative to uncooperative in Japan's efforts to track down the Japanese nationals.

The sum of two units Red Cross societies first launched talks in 1997 if it be not that held all of the previous five sphericals of talks in Beijing. It was the first time for them to suited in the North's capital.

upon Monday morning, the Japanese delegation met officials of the North Korean Ministry of People's Security and the committee for the first time.