(3)Koizumi does not rule out another trip to N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka (fore) and Mitoji Yabunaka, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, emerge from a meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the prime minister's office on May 6. The premier later did not rule out the possibility of his revisit to North Korea to bring the kin of five repatriated Japanese abductees to Japan.

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