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Japan Protests North Korea Missile Launch
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Talks between North Korea and Japan got off to a rocky start Tuesday, with the two sides bickering over Pyongyang\'s recent short-range missile launch.
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Talks between North Korea and Japan got off to a rocky start Tuesday, with the two sides bickering over Pyongyang's recent short-range missile launch. The talks, being held at the North Korean embassy in Beijing, are to focus on Pyongyang's abduction of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s.
There was some concern over whether the negotiations would go ahead following the North's Sunday test-firing of two short-range ballistic missiles.
At the beginning of the talks, Japan's head delegate, Junichi Ihara, said Tokyo "strongly protests" the launch, which he said violates U.N. resolutions.
His North Korean counterpart, Song Il Ho, defended the tests as peaceful and legitimate, saying Pyongyang does not recognize the U.N. sanctions in question.
North Korea agreed in May to re-open an investigation into the abducted Japanese citizens in exchange for Tokyo relaxing some longstanding sanctions.
Song is expected Tuesday to release details on a special panel to probe the issue.
North Korea acknowledged in 2002 that it abducted 13 Japanese citizens to teach its spies about Japanese culture.
Five of the abductees were returned. The North said the rest are dead, but many in Japan suspect at least a dozen more were kidnapped.
The kidnapping issue has been the biggest irritant to ties between North Korea and Japan, which do not have diplomatic relations.
Japan, along with others in the region, also frequently complains about North Korea's nuclear and ballistic
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