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Japan won't accept ban from N.Korea talks TOKYO, Tuesday (Reuters) Japan does not accept North Korea's statement that Tokyo will be banned from future talks on Pyongyang's nuclear arms programme, a Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. "The nuclear issue is not a bilateral issue between Japan and North Korea, but is of serious consequence to the region and the international community," Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hatsuhisa Takashima told Reuters. "We do not accept any notion that a certain country in the six-party talks can be banned by any other party. The six-party talks are formed with the participation of those countries that are gravely concerned with the issue." A statement by the North Korean Foreign Ministry, published by the official KCNA news agency, said that Japan had linked other bilateral issues to the talks and had thus "lost its qualification to be a trustworthy dialogue partner". Earlier "A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry said in a statement today that the DPRK would not allow Japan to participate in any form of negotiations for the settlement of the nuclear issue in the future," KCNA said. The North Korean statement said Japan's leaders had the "black-hearted intention" of using the talks to try to bolster the Japanese economy and their own political positions. |
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