GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday that talks with Japan this month should include a demand for compensation for wartime Korean sex slaves and not only the issue of Japanese abducted decades ago which it considers closed.
But So Se Pyong, North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, said he hoped that the "sensitive" high-level talks being held in Beijing on March 30-31, the first in more than a year, would yield "positive results" for the people of both countries.
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