North Korea said Friday it will hold talks with Japan later this month in Mongolia to discuss ways to mend their relations.

"The DPRK and Japanese governments will hold talks in Ulan Bator of Mongolia on November 15 and 16 under the mutual agreement reached in the wake of the contacts between section chiefs of foreign ministries of the two countries in August 2012," the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a brief English-language dispatch.

The two countries will discuss ways to improve relations, the KCNA said in a separate Korean-language report.

Japanese media reported on the same day that Tokyo will raise the issue of Japanese abducted by the communist country. (Yonhap News)