Japan and North Korea may hold working-level talks as early as this month in Pyongyang to resume negotiations for normalizing bilateral ties between the two nations, Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported Saturday. The paper quoted a Japanese foreign ministry official as saying that in a recent meeting with North Korean officials, both sides had agreed to hold the talks at an earlier time. The Japanese official had entered Pyongyang on a chartered flight Friday to accompany American Charles Jenkins to Indonesia to be reunited with his Japanese wife. Jenkins is accused of deserting his Army unit 40 years ago to defect to North Korea, where he is currently residing. Yomiuri said the agenda for the talks would include checks on progress in finding the whereabouts of ten missing Japanese nationals that Tokyo suspects were kidnapped by the North and a timetable for humanitarian aid to be delivered to the communist state. Japan is positively assessing North Korea's move to allow the reunion of Jenkins and his wife Soga, who Tokyo says was forcefully taken to North Korea in 1978 and who later escaped to Japan two years ago.