Japan, North Korea could resume abduction talks this month - Nikkei

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) supervises an expanded meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang in this February 18, 2015 photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang February 19, 2015. REUTERS/KCNA

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and North Korea could resume talks as early as this month over an investigation North Korea is conducting into the fate of Japanese citizens it kidnapped decades ago, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Saturday.

There was informal contact between Japanese and North Korean diplomats in China in late February, and the two sides agreed to hold a meeting about the investigation in China sometime late March or early April, the Nikkei said without citing sources.