North Korea says 'it will not talk with Japan' at the six-way nuclear talks, citing Tokyo's negative influence during past meetings.

The North's official mouthpiece, the Korean Central News Agency, said Wednesday that Japan had only interrupted and hampered past rounds of six-way talks by repeatedly raising the issue of Pyongyang's past abduction of Japanese nationals and by arguing that the six-way framework should not only be about the North's nuclear standoff.

It claimed that Tokyo had created obstacles to the multilateral disarmament talks, pointing to Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda’s recent hints that his government would raise the abductee issue at the upcoming six-party session.