N. Korea, Japan Hold Talks on Abductees
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Japan and North Korea held a second day of talks Sunday in a dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by the North decades ago. Japan seized the occasion to express concern North
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Turning the tables on Tokyo, North Korea  has called on Japan to investigate the case of one of its  nationals who went missing in 1991 while working in Russia,  saying it presumed Japan had abducted him.
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Delegates to six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program agreed to hold further talks on Tuesday, after meeting into the early hours, suggesting a deal may be in the offing.
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BEIJING  - Japanese negotiators told North Korea they had &quot;serious concern&quot; about its missile program in talks that extended for a second day in Beijing, a Japanese diplomat said.
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bones handed over then were not, as Pyongyang claimed, those of the abducted Japanese citizens. &quot;It (North Korea) no longer feels that any DPRK-Japan inter-governmental contact is meaningful,&quot; he added.
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The United States, Japan and South Korea agreed on Friday to try to arrange a fresh round of six-party talks this month on dismantling North Korea&#39;s nuclear
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Japanese and North Korean negotiators meet in Mongolia for talks aimed at resolving bilateral disputes.
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North Korea has hinted at breaking off  talks with Japan over the fate of Japanese citizens abducted  decades ago, saying Pyongyang no longer sees significance in  maintaining contact, Kyodo news agency said on Friday.
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BEIJING (Kyodo) Japan pressed North Korea on Sunday to provide fuller accounts of 10 Japanese who Tokyo says were abducted by Pyongyang agents, but the North did not provide new information as they wrapped up two days of talks, Japan&#39;s chief delegate said
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Japan and North Korea cut short talks on Thursday about establishing diplomatic ties after wrangling again over historical differences, officials said.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell joined with Japanese leaders today to appeal again to North Korea to resume the stalled negotiations over the future of its nuclear
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HANOI, March 8 -- Talks between Japan and North Korea on normalizing relations ended after only 45 minutes Thursday, as their top envoys blamed each other for the lack of agreement on key historical issues.
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This week's talks between Japan and North  Korea show that efforts to hold another round of six-party  negotiations on the North's nuclear program are gathering pace,  South Korea's foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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The six-party talks to resolve North Korea's nuclear impasse that involves the two Koreas, the US, Russia, China and Japan are currently on hold.
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The six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, initially expected to begin Wednesday, have been postponed, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said Monday.
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North Korean and US officials met this week to discuss the nuclear standoff on the Korean Peninsula. It appears they came no closer to resuming multilateral
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A Japanese government delegation on a visit to North Korea met Friday with a man supposed to be abductee Megumi Yokota&#39;s husband and a doctor at a hospital where Pyongyang claimed she committed suicide, according to the top government spokesman.