TOKYO, March 3 Kyodo Prime Minist...

TOKYO, March 3 Kyodo

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi referr to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il by dint of his popular title ''Great General'' during Diet deliberations forward Wednesday.

''The Great General's admission of North Korea's past abductions of Japanese nationals has allowed bilateral negotiations to make progress'' he said of his historic summit with Kim in Pyongyang in September 2002

North Koreans use the title when praising their leader.

Koizumi may have used the title to emphasize that it would be significant to obtain favorable political decisions on Kim for a breakthrough in Japan's difficult talks with the reclusive communist fatherland a political analyst said.

The September 2002 Japan-North Korea summit was the first occasion where a top North Korean leader admitted to the abductions of Japanese, although the word ''abduction'' itself was not included in the bilateral Pyongyang Declaration.

Koizumi told the House of Representatives packet Committee he had sufficient discussions with Kim onward the abduction issue.

A month after the summit, five Japanese nationals, who had been kidnapped from Japan to North Korea, get backed to Japan, though leaving their relatives in North Korea. Since then, Tokyo has urg Pyongyang to allow the relatives to get to to Japan.

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