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Korean leader admits Japanese were abdii PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — In an astonishing conces sion, North Korean leader Kim Jong II admitted Tuesday that North Korean spies abducted about a dozen Japanese decades ago and said at least four were still alive. The turnaround — after years of angry denials — opened the door for the two estranged neigh bors to reopen talks to establish diplomatic ties, and could signal a change in North Korea’s often hostile approach to relations with the outside world. But the news was shattering for those who learned their sons and daughters were lost to them forever. “Never in my dreams did I imagine this would be the result, said Kayoko Arimoto. whose daughter Keiko vanished in 1983 at age 23 while studying in Europe and is now dead. Kim made the revelation dur ing a landmark summit with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at which he promised North Korea would continue to freeze missile-test fir ings and asked Tokyo to relay to the United States a willingness for dialogue, including accepting inspections of suspected nuclear weapons programs. For his part. Koizumi expressed remorse over the suf fering his nation caused the Korean people before and during World War II and promised to discuss economic aid in the nor- malization talks, set to start next month. Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945 and RUSSIA CHINA NORTH KOREA JAPAN Japan, North Korea agree to talk Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro •Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong II met in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday in a one-day summit The two nations have never had diplomatic relations belore but agreed to resume talks in October toward establishing them. ► North Korea will continue a moratorium on missile firing through 2003 and will allow nuclear inspections by the Inter national Atomic Energy Agency. SOURCE AmmcmM P***« forced thousands of Koreans to work in Japanese mines aixl ship yards and serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers. North Korea s demand for compensation for the atrocities had been another stick ing point in talks between the two nations. Japan has ruled out such compensation and offered aid instead. But the issue of the abductions was the one most closely watched by the Japanese public at the summit. Japan and North Korea have never had diplomatic rela tions. and normalization talks that began in 1991 fell apart twx> years ago. primarily over the kidnap pings. . Displaying an openness previ ously unseen from the isolated communist state. Kim admitted that North Kiwean agents had kid- naf>pcd the Japane* r 197(>s and early l%fiu North's spies in guage and cuiturt an: spies to assume their iz Kim s.ud at least fee kidnapping victims at Jajvuiese police war ami his nation ssaspnar them return to Japar 11 and two other i Japanese were confere “This will nesr again," Kim wasqaee:. by a Japanese Forrf official. "It is rrgrrrj' apologize sincerely* In a statement, Vr promised to help ih meet w ith their fartNie “necessary steps tc return home or visit hr tow ns if ibev wish In search for Columbus, researdi think they exhumed his brothe MADRID. Spain (AP) — Researchers dug up remains thought to be the brother of Christopher Columbus on Tuesday in the first step of a high- tech project to end a dispute over where the explorer himself is buried. Workers broke ground at a garden beside a Seville-area ceramics factory where the brother. Diego Columbus, is thought to have been buried for the past decade. The workers pulled out a corroded zinc box about the size of a suitcase, sliced it open with metal cutters and pulled back the top to reveal brown bone fragments, several of which appeared to be ribs. The project calls for extraction of DNA from the bones and the remains of other Columbus fam ily members. Those results would then be com pared to DNA from two sets of remains both pur ported to be those of Cristobal Colon, as Christopher Columbus is known in Spanish. One set is buried in an ornate tomb at the cathe dral in Seville. The other is in a monument in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Matching Diego’s DNA to that of C Inistopher s would also help determine if they had the same Genovese mother and father, as tra ditional theory holds, or just the same father. Another theory says the men shared only their mother and that Christopher was bom on the Spanish island of Mallorca, not in Italy, and was the illegitimate son of a Spanish prince. Tuesday s disinterment was only a preliminary step, and a final resolution could be months or years away if it comes at all. But lead researcher Marctal Castro was exited nevertheless. "We now have the first piece of the puzzle," he said from Seville Castro and Sergio Algarradi. teachers in the Seville area, have not mission from church and government or either Spain or the Dominican Republic the alleged remains of Christopher atvi forensic geneticist Jose Antonio Lorente DNA. And the remains of Diego are just pc solution to the puzzle, and not even ft strongest card. One problem is they arei the bones at the factory are Diegos bees*' those of his older brother, the remains*^ many times. Diego Colon died in 1515 and wash- chapel on La Cartuja island in the Gu-sc- River that runs through Seville. In the 19b ry a ceramics company acquired the m- everything on it. including the chapel* remains. When it moved the factory to a town Seville in the 1990s. the company tookalor was left of Diego Colon. The skull had be ing since the 1950s after it was removed: ical research. Assuming Castro's team wins pen 111 ' open both graves claimed to hold therefl" Christopher Columbus and DNA can be e'- the most valuable tool for locating the erf grave will be the remains of Hernando Columbus’ son through an extramarital a * Hernando’s remains are the only aut c| ones of a close relative of Christopher Co- Castro says. 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