Pyongyang Says Japanese Sanctions Would Amount to &#39;War&#39;
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North Korea has warned Japan that any sanctions against the communist state would be regarded as a declaration of war. Opinion polls show about two-thirds of the Japanese public supporting
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North Korea says it will treat as a "war declaration" any sanctions imposed by Japan in a kidnapping row.
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North Korea has accused the South&#39;s navy of staging a serious provocation that could lead to a maritime conflict. Pyongyang&#39;s warning came after South Korean patrol boats fired
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North Korea's state media warned Friday the communist nation would bolster its "war deterrent," accusing the United States of plotting a nuclear war, as the world awaited Pyongyang's explanation about its failure to meet a nuclear deadline.
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Japan&#39;s foreign minister said Thursday his country would likely slap sanctions on North Korea to punish it for neglecting Tokyo&#39;s request for a thorough investigation into Japanese kidnapping victims.
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Japan's Cabinet approved a new set of financial sanctions against North Korea on Tuesday in response to the communist nation's missile tests in July, Kyodo News agency reported.
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Japan&#39;s naming Friday of China for the first time as a defense concern in its new defense policy outline poses the danger of intensifying bilateral tensions and may even lead to a vicious cycle of further military buildup in the region.
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North Korea warned Japan on Wednesday  that it would treat economic sanctions as a "declaration of  war" and threatened to try to exclude Tokyo from six-party  talks on Pyongyang's nuclear arms programs.
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Pyongyang demanded the lifting of U.N. sanctions and threatened to increase its nuclear deterrent.
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Japan has warned North Korea it would view any test-fired missile landing on Japanese soil as an attack, after reports the secretive nation was preparing to jangle international nerves with a new missile launch.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso warned  North Korea on Sunday if it launched a missile that dropped on  Japan, Tokyo would regard it as an attack on Japan.
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Japan has protested to North Korea and threatened to cut food aid after an incident involving the ashes of a Japanese woman. Tokyo&#39;s has accused Pyongyang of handing over other people&#39;s ashes to prove the
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North Korea pledges to boost its 'war deterrent', days after missing a deadline for declaring its nuclear activities.
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TOKYO Japan warned North Korea on Friday of a &quot;serious response&quot; if it was not more forthcoming on the status of Japanese people it kidnapped in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Japan said on Friday it would urge North Korea to reinvestigate the fate of Japanese citizens abducted decades ago, and threatened to take &quot;harsh&quot; action unless the reclusive communist state responded &quot;sincerely&quot;.
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Japan said on Friday it would urge North Korea to reinvestigate the fate of Japanese citizens abducted decades ago, and threatened to take "harsh" action unless the reclusive communist state responded "sincerely."
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TOKYO - Japan on Friday increased pressure on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to take the initiative in investigating the cases of his country&#39;s abductions of Japanese in a prompt and sincere manner, warning Tokyo could otherwise impose economic