The two delegations decided to meet for further sessions in Beijing next Wednesday and Thursday, said Akitaka Saiki Japanese representative at the end of a first meeting with his North Korean counterpart Song Il Ho. .

According to the Japanese envoy, the DPRK acknowledged each other with Japan, the need to perform a step. The North Korean delegation did not comment immediately after the meeting. The two delegations arrived separately at the Embassy of Japan before the meeting on Saturday, witnesses said.

The last meeting between Japanese and North Korean was in September 2007 in Mongolia. Several long-standing disputes oppose the two countries. Pyongyang seeks compensation in Tokyo for the suffering of Koreans under the yoke of Japanese who occupied the entire Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945.

Multilateral talks started in August 2003 between the two Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia have reached February 13, 2007 with the commitment of North Korea to abandon its nuclear energy assistance cons Pyongyang one million tons of oil equivalent.

The DPRK gave Mr. Kim documents on its nuclear programs May 8 during his last visit to Pyongyang. These documents must include detailed technical data on plutonium reactor shut the DPRK.

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