North Korea, Japan hold new talks on abductees; no progress ...
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BEIJING - 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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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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Japan and North Korea cut short talks on Thursday toward establishing diplomatic relations, Japanese diplomats said, but the reason was not immediately clear.
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Washington pursuing the talks as a way to resolve the two-year-old nuclear crisis. proceed to launch one of its Rodong missiles. reconnaissance satellites and radio traffic, the Japanese government sources said.
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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 United States have gone into another round of direct talks with North Korea despite reporting no progress in the campaign to convince Pyongyang to give up its nuclear arms.
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Pyongyang says the issue of missing Japanese has been "settled", despite Japan's calls for further talks.
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Japan and North Korea will hold talks on establishing diplomatic relations next week in Ulan Bator, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said on Tuesday. The two-day talks from September 5 will be held as part of a six-country deal to scrap Pyongyang's nuclear arms programmes in exchange for aid and diplomatic recognition.
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North Korea hinted on Friday at breaking  off talks with Japan over the fate of Japanese citizens  abducted decades ago, saying Pyongyang no longer sees  significance in maintaining contact.
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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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Talks between Japan and North Korea on normalizing ties ended after only 45 minutes Thursday, leaving wide gaps as their top envoys blamed each other for the lack of agreement on key historical issues.
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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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Japan will ask North Korea to relaunch probes into the fate of Japanese citizens it abducted after false evidence presented earlier led to calls for sanctions against the communist state, reports said.
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November 12, 2004 ã¡ Comments from Chinese and Japanese officials suggest that North Korea was not yet ready to resume the stalled six-nation talks aimed at ending its nuclear program.
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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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Senior officials from the United States,  South Korea and Japan held talks on Friday aimed at arranging a  fresh round of six-party negotiations on dismantling North  Korea's nuclear programs as doubts grew about the outlook for  discussions later this month.
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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.