Japan presses for U.N. stand on N.Korea nuclear vow
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Japan pressed on with efforts on Thursday to secure a U.N. condemnation of North Korea's nuclear test threat after Washington, in its starkest warning so far, said it would not live with a nuclear-armed Pyongyang.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made the pledge after talks with visiting South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun. The Japanese government is under pressure to impose sanctions over a row concerning kidnapped Japanese.
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North Korea on Friday will ask the United Nations to take up its complaint over what it calls a "fascist search" of a pro-North Korean group in Tokyo, a Japanese diplomat said.
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Japan hopes new pledges to rebuild Iraq  will emerge as international donors meet in Tokyo from  Wednesday, but it sees broader participation in stabilizing the  war-torn country as even more important than fresh funds.
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Pyongyang says it wants Japan to return the human remains at the centre of a row over a missing woman.
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Japan said Monday it was considering whether a pre-emptive strike on the North&#039;s missile bases would violate its constitution, suggesting it could take stronger action against the reclusive regime if the U.N. Security Council rejects its resolution calling for sanctions.
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Japan has brushed off a North Korean statement saying it would consider sanctions imposed by Tokyo &quot;a declaration of war,&quot; and renewed calls for penalties on the North for failing to account fully for Japanese citizens it abducted decades ago.
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by our Internet desk, 24 August 2004. Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi says he will press his country&#39;s case for a permanent UN Security Council seat when he addresses the annual session of the General Assembly next month.
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World powers are set to adopt a joint statement urging North Korea to abandon plans to test a nuclear device, which Japan said could happen as early as this weekend.
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South Korea on Wednesday urged Japan to carefully consider possible negative effects on the North Korean nuclear talks before imposing economic sanctions on Pyongyang for its kidnapping of Japanese citizens.
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Leaders of Japan and South Korea jointly urged North Korea on Friday to return to talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program and agreed imposing economic sanctions now on Pyongyang would thwart such efforts.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka  Machimura said on Sunday North Korea should realize that time  was running out before Japan and the international community  would begin discussing slapping it with economic sanctions.
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Japan's two largest parties failed to agree Tuesday on continuing a naval mission in the Indian Ocean, dealing a setback to the government which has pledged to support the US-led "war on terror".
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BEIJING (Kyodo) Japan lodged a protest Saturday with North Korea over Pyongyang&#39;s investigations into 10 Japanese citizens whom Tokyo maintains were abducted, and handed over its report concluding that materials provided by the North do not support its
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Japan will demand a clear explanation from North Korea this weekend on whether it is preparing to test-fire a ballistic missile, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Friday.
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Japan has vowed to pursue its campaign for reform of the UN Security Council from which it hopes to secure a permanent seat on the key body despite opposition from some of its neighbours.
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Japan reined in its drive for an   immediate vote on North Korean sanctions at the U.N. Security   Council on Monday, offering regional powers a chance to resolve   a missile crisis through direct diplomacy.