Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe on Sunday urged North Korea to promise that the children of five Japanese abductees can come to Japan.
Abe said the promise should be a precondition for resuming the next bilateral normalization talks.
"I want (North Korea) to promise to return the children (to Japan) before deciding on the schedule of the negotiations," Abe said on a Sunday television talk show.
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