Red Cross representatives from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Japan would hold talks in Beijing in the coming days, state media reported Tuesday.

The meeting would be held Thursday and Friday, said the Korean Central News Agency, without specifying the topics to be discussed.

In April, Japan's Kyodo news agency quoted Song Il Ho, Pyongyang's chief negotiator in the DPRK-Japan normalization talks, as saying a number of Japanese bodies had been found in the DPRK.

The DPRK would cooperate with Japan should the latter want to retrieve the remains, which were probably those of soldiers who died during World War II, Song was quoted as saying.