Japan to Proceed With North Korea Talks, Hosoda Says
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Japan will proceed with planned talks with North Korea tomorrow on normalizing ties, after a report the communist nation may be preparing to launch a ballistic missile, Hiroyuki Hosoda, Japan&#39;s chief government spokesman, said.
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Japan will go ahead with food aid to  North Korea despite its dissatisfaction with Pyongyang's  failure to clarify the fate of Japanese citizens kidnapped  decades ago, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi 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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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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The top U.S. envoy to the North Korean nuclear talks expressed hope Wednesday that Japan and North Korea would meet on the sidelines of the six-nation negotiations to discuss normalizing their relations.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit China on October 8 and South Korea the next day for talks with their leaders in a bid to repair ties frayed by disputes over their bitter wartime past, but North Korea's nuclear threat looks set to grab a prominent place on the agenda.
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Japan and North Korea hold talks Wednesday for the first time in six months to discuss tense ties amid rare, albeit cautious, signs of optimism between the arch-foes.
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Japan will seek an explanation at weekend  talks with North Korea on activity indicating Pyongyang may be  preparing a missile test, although Tokyo does not think a  launch is imminent, Japan's top government spokesman said.
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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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The United States has decided to aim for a gradual transformation in North Korea rather than seek to topple North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's regime, a Japanese newspaper said Saturday.
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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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TOKYO Top diplomats from Japan, South Korea and the United States said Friday that they were committed to resuming six-nation talks this month in hopes of persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, officials said.
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Japan should consider economic sanctions against North Korea if talks with the nation on abductions of Japanese citizens end without making progress, said ruling party official Shinzo Abe.
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The chief U.S. negotiator on North  Korea will hold discussions in Japan and China in the next few  days aimed at organizing a fresh round of six-party talks on  dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear programs, a State Department  official said on Tuesday.
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: Talks between Japan and North Korea aimed at resolving a dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by the North decades ago ended Sunday without progress, Japanese officials said.
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A US envoy said this week's talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons could discuss economic incentives for Pyongyang, but Japan ruled out funding a deal without progress in a dispute over kidnapped Japanese.
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Japan and North Korea on Thursday wrapped up two days of talks on establishing diplomatic relations without visible progress in disputes over key issues that have hampered efforts to improve bilateral ties.