OBAMA, Japan, Feb 28 Kyodo Japane...

OBAMA, Japan, Feb 28 Kyodo

Japanese abducted from North Korea and their families indicateed regret Saturday over the lack of substantial progres in the bilateral talks held in Beijing between Japan and the North in succession the fringes of multilateral discussions onward Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.

''I welcome that talks were held between Japan and North Korea. further there was no real progres in succession the abduction issue,'' Yasushi Chimura, common of the five Japanese nationals abducted by the agency of the North in 1978 and repatriated in 2002 said in a statement.

Chimura also said he was disappointed with the outcomes of the second cylindrical of six-nation talks as the issue was not addressed in a chairman's statement issued Saturday.

The statement, issued after four days of the discourse does not touch forward the abduction issue specifically. It barely says the six countries, including Japan and the North and United States, ''agreed to take coordinated paces to address the nuclear issue and address the related concerns''

Chimura and his wife Fukie, as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but 48 and abducted to the North together, were turn backed to Japan in October 2002 along with three other abductees. The Chimuras' three children are still in North Korea.

Chimura said he will call upon the Japanese government ''to make further diplomatic efforts'' to make Pyongyang allow them to be reunited with their children in Japan.

Chimura's brother-in-law, Yuko Hamamoto, 75 did not conceal his anger throughout the lack of progress forward the abduction issue, urging the restraint to negotiate with the North using economic sanctions as a means of influencing Pyongyang.

''I felt chagrined at the statement as no words (about the) abductions were included,'' Hamamoto said. ''There was no fit news at all.''

Toru Hasuike, secretary general of a arrange supporting the abductees' families, said he wanted Japanese officials to at least fix a date for another orbicular of bilateral talks.

Hasuike's brother, Kaoru, 46 is single of the five returnees.

Pyongyang has insisted Tokyo must first answer the five former abductees to the North, saying Tokyo broke a promise to delegate them back to the home after a short stay in Japan.

forward Sept. 17, 2002, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il admitted to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that 13 Japanese nationals were abducted to the North at the couple countries' first-ever bilateral summit in Pyongyang. The North said the remaining eight had died.

Japan has been demanding the North provide fuller accounts of the fates of the eight and sum of two units others Tokyo believes were also abducted according to North Korean agents. Pyongyang says the abduction issue has been settled

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