Japan, N Korea envoys hold talks
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Japanese and North Korean negotiators meet in Mongolia for talks aimed at resolving bilateral disputes.
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Japan and North Korea salvaged their first diplomatic talks in more than a year on Wednesday after negotiations were suspended over discord about Pyongyang's abduction of Japanese citizens.
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Japan is trying to agree on dates for  fence-mending summits between its new prime minister, Shinzo  Abe, and the leaders of China and South Korea, a senior  Japanese foreign ministry official said on Monday.
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Japan and North Korea are scheduled to hold talks this week on Japanese citizens kidnaped by Pyongyang decades ago who remain missing.
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North Korea hosted U.S. envoys at its mission in Geneva on Sunday for the second and final day of talks aimed at smoothing relations between the 1950-53 Korean War opponents and speeding up Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.
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South Korea and Japan agreed Saturday to try to restart stalled six-party talks concerning North Korea&#39;s nuclear ambitions. North Korea should return to the multilateral
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Six-party talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear program resume in Beijing on Thursday with the top U.S. envoy denying a Japanese media report that the isolated state had signed a deal with Washington.
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BEIJING : Japanese negotiators expressed &quot;serious concern&quot; about North Korea&#39;s missile program in talks that went into a second day in Beijing, a Japanese diplomat said.
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Envoys seeking to end North Korea's nuclear arms ambitions decided to extend talks into Friday as differences emerged on the next steps towards disabling the North's atomic facilities, a Japanese delegate said.
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Envoys from the United States and South Korea are in Beijing as part of an intense diplomatic effort to bring North Korea back into mulilateral talks on its nuclear weapons programmes.
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U.S. and North Korean diplomats met face-to-face Tuesday to discuss international efforts to get the communist regime to give up its nuclear arms program and the North's demand for Washington to stop trying to freeze it out of the global banking system.
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Talks aimed at resolving a dispute over Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago ended Sunday with no progress, Japanese officials said.
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Prospects for a thaw between North Korea and its foes brightened on Wednesday as it held talks with Japan in Hanoi, one day after a meeting with U.S. officials in New York that an American envoy described as "very good".
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SEOGWIPO, South Korea  - The foreign ministers of South Korea, Japan and China meet on Sunday to try to smooth often prickly ties and help resolve the impasse over the nuclear weapons plans of their neighbor, North Korea.
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Japanese and North Korean diplomats met  on Tuesday to smooth the way toward improving relations, but  Tokyo said it would not establish ties until the issue of its  citizens abducted by Pyongyang was resolved.
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Japanese negotiators are to begin fresh talks on their nationals allegedly abducted by Pyongyang.
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The chief U.S. envoy in nuclear talks with North Korea will fly to Pyongyang on Thursday to discuss the next steps to be taken under a disarmament deal in February, Japan said.