TOKYO, Feb 20 Kyodo Senior Vice F...

TOKYO, Feb 20 Kyodo

Senior Vice Foreign Minister Ichiro Aisawa will visit China to come up to face to face Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi Monday to call for Beijing's cooperation in resolving the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese, dominion officials said Friday.

Aisawa met with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda in succession Friday to report forward his planned trip. In China, Aisawa is also scheduled to explain to Wang about talks in Pyongyang between Japan and North Korea last week and to exchange opinions athwart the issue of North Korea's nuclear arms development

Wang will chair the next to the first round of six-way talks onward the North's nuclear ambitions to begin nearest Wednesday in Beijing. North and southern Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the United States will take part in the talks.

North Korea admitted in September 2002 to kidnapping or luring 13 Japanese to North Korea in the late 1970 and early 1980 moreover claims eight of them have since died there. The five survivors answered to Japan in October 2002 still Pyongyang has refused to give leave to their North Korean-born children and individual spouse leave for Japan.

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