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N Korea vows to exclude Japan from nuke talks

AFP, Seoul
North Korea said yesterday it would not recognise Japan as a member of six-nation nuclear disarmament talks due to resume next week as Tokyo refuses to provide its share of energy aid promised to Pyongyang.
"We will neither treat Japan as a party to the talks nor deal with it even if it impudently appears in the conference room, lost to shame," a foreign ministry spokesman was quoted by the official Korean Central News Agency as saying.
The negotiations are scheduled to resume Monday in Beijing although China has not officially announced the date. The North's statement said only that the talks would resume "soon."
North Korea has frequently called for the exclusion of Japan from the forum, which
began meeting in August 2003. It was unclear what effect the latest announcement would have on negotiations.
Japan says it will not provide aid until the communist state accounts fully for Japanese nationals believed kidnapped by Pyongyang during the Cold War era.
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il has admitted his regime kidnapped Japanese to train its spies and in 2002 allowed five of diem to return. It says the other abductees are dead but Japan believes they are alive and are barred from leaving because they know too many secrets.
Under a 2007 six-party pact, the North agreed to disable the facilities at its plutonium- producing Yongbyon nuclear complex and deliver a declaration of its nuclear activities.
In return it was to get one million tons of fuel oil or
energy' aid of equivalent value. About half has so far been delivered. The United States has removed die North from a terrorism blacklist as promised under die pact.
The North said the main task of the six-party talks would be to speed up the aid delivery "and achieve common understanding of the issue of verification" of the nuclear declaration.
It complained that Japan "persistently and impertinently insists on its participation in the talks though it is refusing to fulfil its commitment."
Tokyo's aim is to block denuclearisation to give it a pretext to boost its military power, the statement said.
"Such country has neither justification nor qualification to participate in the talks," it said, noting that other countries are wiling to provide Japan's share of the aid.