N Korea, Japan report progress on repatriating WWII soldiers' remains

How about repatriating the kidnapped Japanese still remaining in North Korea while you are at it?

I can only hope that some meaningful negotiations are built on the back of this pointless exercise.

Really, they care about some damn corpses in North Korea...

The North is going to play nice for a while because they need Japanese Aid, both money and food. Once they have sucked what they can, the door will slam shut again and once again, we will be tracking missile trajectories. Be smart, Japan. No aid of any kind till real progress is made on national security issues.