Japan freezes food aid to N Korea
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Tokyo says it is freezing food aid to North Korea for not co-operating in a probe into missing Japanese.
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The U.S. and Japan have not discussed providing energy aid to North Korea ahead of talks aimed at getting the isolated communist nation to abandon its nuclear program, officials from the two countries said Tuesday.
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TOKYO Japan warned North Korea on Friday of a &quot;serious response&quot; if it was not more forthcoming on the status of Japanese people it kidnapped in the 1970s and 1980s.
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IBUSUKI, Japan  - Leaders of Japan and South Korea  jointly urged North Korea on Friday to return to talks aimed at  ending its nuclear weapons program and agreed imposing economic  sanctions now on Pyongyang would thwart such efforts.
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Leaders of Japan and South Korea have jointly urged North Korea to return to talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program. They agreed that imposing economic sanctions now on Pyongyang would thwart such efforts.
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Japan is considering aid for North Korea, its first since 2004 when it halted shipments over the abduction issue.
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Most of the North Korean funds frozen in a Macau bank have been transferred, South Korean and Japanese news agencies said on Thursday, raising the prospect of an end to the deadlock stalling Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.
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Japan urged North Korea on Wednesday to comply with its international obligations amid reports the two countries had canceled an afternoon session of talks to establish diplomatic relations
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Japan threatened retaliation against North Korea such as cutting off economic ties unless the communist state returned Japanese people it has kidnapped or gave a "sincere response" on their fate.
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TOKYO: Nearly three-quarters of Japanese polled urged economic sanctions on North Korea as support for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#39;s cabinet slipped, a poll said on Tuesday.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka  Machimura said on Sunday North Korea should realize that time  was running out before Japan and the international community  would begin discussing slapping it with economic sanctions.
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Japan on Tuesday warned it might impose sanctions against North Korea after accusing the communist country of failing to properly investigate the fates of Japanese citizens it kidnapped years ago.
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Japan's Cabinet approved a new set of financial sanctions against North Korea on Tuesday in response to the communist nation's missile tests in July, Kyodo News agency reported.
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North Korea has threatened to suspend family reunions with the rival South unless Seoul gives it food aid as agreed, casting a pall over high-level reconciliation talks between the divided Koreas, a news report said Friday.
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South Korea on Saturday resumed rice aid to North Korea, suspended for nearly a year, as the communist country moved towards the dismantling its nuclear programme.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka  Machimura said on Thursday economic sanctions against North  Korea were "one option," but added that care was needed in  deciding whether Tokyo should take such a step immediately.
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While Pyongyang will likely delay six-nation talks on its nuclear programs, Japan&#39;s Foreign Ministry is preparing discussions with North Korea later this month in Beijing to finally get answers on 10 missing Japanese.