Japan-N Korea kidnap row hots up
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Japan says it is lodging a strong protest with North Korea over what Tokyo sees as its lack of co-operation over missing Japanese.
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Japan urged North Korea on yesterday to return to six-way talks on the North&#39;s nuclear weapons program in a third day of meetings focusing on the fate of missing Japanese citizens kidnapped by Northern spies, Japanese officials said.
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The transfer of North Korean funds long frozen in a Macau bank was due to begin on Thursday, Japan's Kyodo news agency said, raising the prospect of an end to the deadlock stalling a nuclear disarmament deal with Pyongyang.
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Reports out of Japan claim that there are activities in North Korea implying that the country may be preparing to launch one of its ballistic missiles.
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Pyongyang says it wants Japan to return the human remains at the centre of a row over a missing woman.
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As talks with North Korea progress, families fear Japanese citizens snatched 30 years ago are forgotten
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North Korea should immediately provide information on Japanese citizens it kidnapped in the 1970s and '80s, rather than waiting for Tokyo to set a deadline, the prime minister said Tuesday.
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Japanese and North Korean envoys began a new round of talks Saturday on a dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by the North decades ago, and a Japanese diplomat reportedly expressed "serious concern" over a possible planned North Korean missile test.
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As the six parties gather to talks about nuclear weapons, Tokyo's position is shaped by domestic anger over Japanese kidnapped by North Korea
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This week&#39;s talks between Japan and North Korea show that efforts to hold another round of six-party negotiations on the North&#39;s nuclear program are gathering pace, South Korea&#39;s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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Japan and North Korea will hold talks next week to discuss the resumption of multilateral negotiations aimed at dismantling the communist nation&#39;s nuclear arms program, a Japanese foreign ministry spokesman said.
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TOKYO : Japan is enraged at North Korea for allegedly lying about the deaths of two of its citziens the Stalinist state kidnapped, with commentators warning the deception has set back the chances of reconcilation with the outside world.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought on Sunday to contain fallout from his remarks about women forced to act as wartime sex slaves for Japanese soldiers as the furor threatened to cloud summits with Chinese and U.S. leaders.
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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.
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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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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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Japanese and North Korean officials began a third round of talks in Pyongyang Wednesday over the fate of 13 Japanese citizens abducted decades ago by North Korean spies, reports The China Post.