Japanese delegation headed by Katsunari Suzuki (L) listens during the
second round of talks with North Korea at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur
October 30, 2002. Japan and North Korea were set on Wednesday for a
second round of talks on normalising ties after contentious discussions
a day earlier left them far apart on the key issues of Pyongyang's
nuclear arms programme and Japanese citizens abducted decades ago.
REUTERS/Zainal Abd Halim

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