[Kyodo: Korea] Japan and North Korea need a new agreement to improve bilateral relations, and Pyongyang is ready to hold talks with the incoming Japanese administration of Yukio Hatoyama, who advocates closer ties with other Asian nations, a senior North Korean official said Friday. Song Il Ho, ambassador for normalization talks with Japan, said in an interview with Kyodo News in Pyongyang that an agreement the two countries struck in August last year in Shenyang, China, has become ""invalid"" due to outgoing Prime Minister Taro Aso"s ""hostile"" policy toward North Korea.
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