N Korea, Japan foreign ministers to visit Vietnam
26-JUL-2008 Intellasia | Reuters
Jul 26, 2008 - 7:00:00 AM
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Foreign ministers from Japan and North Korea will visit Hanoi from Friday to discuss bilateral and international issues, Vietnam's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Dung told reporters Japanese Foreign minister Masahiko Komura and his North Korean counterpart Pak Ui-chun were scheduled to arrive in Hanoi on Friday for official visits.
On Wednesday, Komura raised the decades-old issue of Japanese abductees during an informal meeting with his North Korean counterpart in Singapore. They were attending a rare meeting from six nations involved in nuclear talks with North Korea.
North Korea admitted in 2002 that its agents had abducted 13 Japanese, sparking outrage in Japan.
Five of them were repatriated that same year, but Pyongyang says the other eight are dead. Tokyo wants more information about the eight and four others it says were also kidnapped, and wants any survivors sent home.
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