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January 2005 - Japan Special Weapons News

  • KCNA Slams Japanese Reactionaries' Attempt to Internationalize Abduction Issue KCNA 31 Jan 2005 -- The Japanese reactionaries are now getting more undisguised in their moves to internationalize the "abduction issue." Yachi, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, at talks with a delegation of U.S. congressmen on Jan.18 asserted that it is necessary for the entire international community to put pressure upon north Korea in order to settle the abduction issue.
  • JAPAN / N. KOREA SANCTIONS VOA 27 Jan 2005 -- Japan is giving its clearest signal yet that it might impose economic sanctions against North Korea. The threat comes amid increasingly contentious rhetoric over the failure to resolve the issue of North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens during the Cold War.
  • Japan's Demand for "Reinvestigation" Rejected KCNA 19 Jan 2005 -- The DPRK feels no need to have inter-governmental contact with Japan any longer now that the "abduction issue" had been settled with the Japanese prime minister's visit to Pyongyang as an occasion and the DPRK has made all sincere efforts it can.
  • Malicious Smear Campaign against DPRK Flailed KCNA 19 Jan 2005 -- Kanzaki, representative of the Komeito Party, a party of the ruling coalition of Japan, in a recent NHK program palavered about the "abduction issue", throwing together the balderdash that "pressure should be put on north Korea" and "stage-by-stage reaction is necessary."
  • JAPAN DEFENSE VOA 07 Jan 2005 -- The head of Japan's Defense Agency is about to embark on a six-day trip to several Asian nations to explain the country's beefed-up defense policy. The visit is seen as an attempt to reassure the region Japan has no intention of returning to its militarist past.
  • JAPAN-NOKOR VOA 04 Jan 2005 -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is hoping to see progress this year in the on-again, off-again dialogue with North Korea. Mr. Koizumi says he does not believe the communist state really wants to end talks with Japan.



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