North Korea to probe abducted Japanese: source
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North Korea will conduct a thorough  investigation into the kidnapping of Japanese citizens, a  departure from its stand that the divisive issue has been  settled, a source with ties to Pyongyang said on Thursday.
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Japan and North Korea will resume talks on Thursday toward establishing diplomatic relations after discord over Japanese abducted by Pyongyang suspended the first day of discussions, Japan's chief negotiator said.
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A Japanese government delegation on a visit to North Korea met Friday with a man supposed to be abductee Megumi Yokota&#39;s husband and a doctor at a hospital where Pyongyang claimed she committed suicide, according to the top government spokesman.
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The South Korean government was checking  reports that one or two of its nationals may have been  kidnapped in Iraq, Foreign Ministry officials said on Sunday.
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Japan&#39;s foreign minister said Thursday his country would likely slap sanctions on North Korea to punish it for neglecting Tokyo&#39;s request for a thorough investigation into Japanese kidnapping victims.
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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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Japan lodged a formal complaint with North Korea on Wednesday after tests showed that human remains which Pyongyang claimed belonged to a Japanese citizen abducted decades ago by communist agents are those of someone else.
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BEIJING (Kyodo) Japan lodged a protest Saturday with North Korea over Pyongyang&#39;s investigations into 10 Japanese citizens whom Tokyo maintains were abducted, and handed over its report concluding that materials provided by the North do not support its
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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 next week release its evaluation of an investigation by North Korea into the fate of Japanese citizens its agents abducted in the 1970s and 1980s, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said.
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Japan threatened retaliation against North Korea such as cutting off economic ties unless the communist state returned Japanese people it has kidnapped or gave a "sincere response" on their fate.
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North Korea has agreed to allow US investigators to search for the remains of more than 2,000 members of the US armed forces missing in action from the Korean War, US officials said.
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Japan on Tuesday warned it would consider sanctions against North Korea after accusing the communist country of failing to properly investigate the fates of Japanese citizens it kidnapped years ago.
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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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While the U.S. and others focus on North Korea's nuclear weapons, Japan is worried that the issue of North Korea's abduction of its citizens is falling by the wayside
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that ruling party lawmakers will conduct a fresh investigation into the Japanese military's alleged forced sexual slavery of women during World War II
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TOKYO : Japan has accused North Korea of presenting false evidence over the fate of victims it kidnapped more than two decades ago.