North Korea seeks "fruitful relations" with Japan's incoming centre-left government, Kyodo news agency quoted the regime's number two, Kim Yong-Nam, as saying in an interview on Thursday in Pyongyang.
Kim, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, said Pyongyang would closely watch the policy stance of the incoming Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and the next prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama.
"The prospect of (North) Korea-Japan relations will solely depend on the attitude of the Japanese government," Kim was quoted as saying by Kyodo.
He added that relations would depend on how Japan tackled issues such as compensation for its 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, Kyodo reported from the exclusive interview in the isolated communist state.
The DPJ is due to take power next Wednesday after its landslide defeat of the long-ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party in August 30 elections, and Hatoyama is due to take over from Prime Minister Taro Aso that day.
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