Japan and NKorea agree to resume talks on ties

Thursday, March 8, 2007, 11:55 [IST]

HANOI, Mar 7 (Reuters) Japan and North Korea will resume talks tomorrow toward establishing diplomatic relations after discord over Japanese abducted by Pyongyang suspended the first day of discussions, Japan's chief negotiator said.

''We will meet at the North Korean embassy tomorrow morning at 10 to discuss the abductions issue and normal diplomatic relations,'' delegation head Koichi Haraguchi told reporters in Hanoi, where talks were scheduled for March 7 and 8 under a six-nation deal last month to close communist North Korea's nuclear weapons programme in exchange for aid.

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Topics: POLITICS-NKOREA-JAPAN-SECOND LEAD TALKS

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Thursday, March 8, 2007,13:12 [IST]

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