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Article: Japan must stand firm in North Korea talks.
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- Yomiuri Shimbun
- Article date:
- March 12, 2007
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The following editorial appeared in The Yomiuri Shimbun on Friday, March 9:
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If the two-day meeting between Japan and North Korea in Hanoi is any indication, future bilateral negotiations seem set to be an arduous battle of wills.
The first working group meeting on normalizing diplomatic relations between the two countries under the six-party agreement reached in February ended Thursday.
Japan's top priority in the negotiations _ the first in 13 months _ was to resolve the abduction of Japanese by North Korean agents. This stands to reason because Japan should not normalize the bilateral relations without resolving the issue of ...