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May 2004 - Japan Special Weapons News

  • JAPAN/SOKOR DISPUTE VOA 31 May 2004 -- A centuries-old territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea is again escalating. In recent weeks, Japanese ultra-nationalists have attempted to land on the tiny island group they call Takeshima. South Koreans, more recently, made the Japanese angry by placing a group of amateur radio operators on the rocky islets, known in Korean as Dokdo (or Tokdo).
  • JAPAN / AL-QAIDA VOA 26 May 2004 -- Japanese police have made five arrests of suspects thought to be linked to an alleged senior member of the al-Qaida terrorist network
  • Japanese Prime Minister Interviewed by Reporters KCNA 24 May 2004 -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi had an interview with reporters at Pyongyang Koryo Hotel Saturday in connection with his visit to the DPRK.
  • JAPAN/NORTH KOREA REACT VOA 24 May 2004 -- New opinion polls show that most Japanese approve of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi attending a summit meeting in Pyongyang last Saturday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, but most are also disappointed with the results.
  • Koizumi Acknowledges Flaws in North Korea Meeting VOA News 23 May 2004 -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has acknowledged his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il did not meet expectations, despite the release of five children of Japanese kidnap victims.
  • JAPAN/NOKOR VOA 22 May 2004 -- Five family members of Japanese abducted by North Korea during the Cold War are on their way to be reunited with their parents in Japan. They boarded a Japanese government plane Saturday evening in Pyonygang, following a 90-minute summit between Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
  • JAPAN/NOKOR KOIZUMI VOA 21 May 2004 -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi makes a one-day trip to the capital of North Korea on Saturday. Expectations are high that the visit will lead to a breakthrough in the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese citizens, which has prevented the two countries from moving toward normalizing relations.
  • JAPAN / NOKOR / U-S VOA 16 May 2004 -- Japanese media say their government has asked the United States not to prosecute a U-S military deserter who may be coming to Japan soon from North Korea. The former Army sergeant is married to a Japanese woman who was abducted by the North Koreans and is now back in Japan. The case of Charles Jenkins is a complicating factor in resolving the abduction issue between Japan and North Korea.
  • Japanese Prime Minister to Visit DPRK KCNA 15 May 2004 -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will visit the DPRK in late May to implement the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration and restore the relations of confidence between the DPRK and Japan.
  • JAPAN NOKOR VOA 14 May 2004 -- Japan's prime minister is making a second trip to North Korea for talks with that country's leader. Japan and North Korea have no diplomatic ties. The impending visit is raising expectations of a breakthrough on such thorny bilateral issues as North Korea's abduction of Japanese nationals.
  • KCNA on Truth about Japan's Nuclear Issue KCNA 10 May 2004 -- The Korean Central News Agency released a lengthy memorandum Saturday bringing to light the truth behind the nuclear issue of Japan to warn the Japanese militarist forces against their dangerous moves for nuclear weaponization and resolutely foil them.
  • JAPAN/NOKOR VOA 10 May 2004 -- Japan's prime minister is not commenting on speculation he might again travel to North Korea to break the impasse on Japanese citizens abducted by the North - the major barrier to improved relations between the two countries.
  • GE Marine to Supply IHI with LM2500 Gas Turbines to Power Japan's 15DDG AEGIS Destroyer GE Marine 06 May 2004 -- GE Marine will supply Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, Co., Ltd. (IHI), Tokyo, Japan with four LM2500 gas turbines. The engines will be placed into propulsion modules by IHI to power the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's (JMSDF) 15DDG AEGIS destroyer. The destroyer will be built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.'s Nagasaki, Japan shipyard.
  • KOREAS/TALKS VOA 05 May 2004 -- Japanese and North Korean negotiators have wrapped up talks, without indicating whether the families of Japanese citizens Pyongyang once held captive will be allowed to go to Japan. Those talks are only part of the diplomatic activity involving North Korea.
  • KOREA/TALKS VOA 04 May 2004 -- There is a flurry of diplomatic activity under way concerning North Korea. Two sets of talks are taking place between North Korean and its neighbors.



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