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March 2005 - Japan Special Weapons News

  • JAPAN CHINA ISLANDS VOA 28 Mar 2005 -- Japan has pushed Chinese diplomats for more information about Beijing's search for natural gas in areas of the ocean the two countries both claim. Japanese diplomats proposed the two governments take steps to improve ties.
  • SOKOR/JAPAN RELATIONS VOA 24 Mar 2005 -- South Korean officials are backing away from some tough language by President Roh Moo-Hyun over territorial dispute with Japan. But they continue to say they will not hesitate to confront Tokyo when necessary.
  • JAPAN/SARIN ATTACK/ANNIVERSARY VOA 19 Mar 2005 -- Japan is remembering the lethal nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by a religious cult 10 years ago Sunday. A decade after the incident, legal appeals drag on, and survivors say they are suffering with little outside support.
  • SOKOR / JAPAN DISPUTE VOA 17 Mar 2005 -- The South Korean National Security Council says relations with Japan have been "seriously hurt" by a Japanese claim this week to several disputed islands.
  • SOKOR/JAPAN ISLANDS VOA 16 Mar 2005 -- South Korea vented its anger Wednesday after a regional legislature in Japan passed a symbolic resolution about a set of disputed islands. As street protests over the matter are intensifying in Seoul, so is the level of the South Korean government's official response.
  • Moves of U.S. and Japan to Tighten Their Military Alliance under Fire KCNA 15 Mar 2005 -- The U.S. and Japanese reactionaries have systematically supplemented and rounded off the joint military operation plan and the order of action under the pretext of "ensuring security" and "coping with threat" since the demise of the Cold War.
  • Japan Can Never Be Permanent Member of UNSC: DPRK Representative to UN KCNA 14 Mar 2005 -- It is intolerable and contrary to the basic mission of the UN for Japan to be a permanent member nation of the UNSC in view of the fact that it committed crimes against humanity in the past and is reviving militarism and posing a threat to Asia and its surrounding countries.
  • Japan Has No Qualification to Be Permanent Member of UNSC KCNA 14 Mar 2005 -- Rodong Sinmun Sunday in a singed article stresses that Japan has no qualification to be a permanent member of the UN Security Council in all respects, noting that it is an impudent and imprudent behavior for Japan to make desperate efforts for the membership, not aware of its position.
  • Japan's Territorial Claim to Tok Islet Refuted KCNA 02 Mar 2005 -- Japanese Ambassador in Seoul Takano at a recent press interview asserted that Tok Islet belongs to Japan. Earlier, a draft act on instituting Feb. 22 as "Day of Tok Islet" was submitted to the Shimane Prefectural Assembly of Japan.
  • Abe's Political Hysterics Flayed KCNA 02 Mar 2005 -- Acting Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan Abe these days never opens his mouth without blustering about "economic sanctions against north Korea."
  • KCNA Slams Japan's Perfidy to DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration KCNA 01 Mar 2005 -- The ultra-right wing forces of Japan are spreading the false rumor that the DPRK abrogated the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration, peddling "abduction, nuclear and missile issues".
  • JAPAN/NORTH KOREA SHIPS VOA 01 Mar 2005 -- A new Japanese law has come into force that effectively bars most North Korean ships from docking in Japan - a move seen as a de facto sanction against the communist state.



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