The Japanese Diet will reportedly adopt a resolution urging the Tokyo government to seriously consider imposing economic sanctions on North Korea.

The move comes in the wake of a series of DNA test results that showed that human remains Pyongyang claimed to be of Japanese citizens abducted decades ago by communist agents were actually those of other persons.

Local media reported the Japanese Diet is now set to adopt a resolution calling on the authorities to activate effective sanctions possible within the parameters of Japanese law in such areas as foreign exchange and the banning of certain North Korean ships from entering the country.

The resolution is also expected to further call for a freeze on humanitarian aid to the communist North, tightened regulations on credit unions run by pro-North Korean Japanese residents, compensation for abducted citizens, and the North's return to the six-way nuclear talks.