NKorea accuses Japan of revising defense policy towards militarism
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North Korea on Sunday accused Japan of using anti-terrorism moves as an excuse for militarism which put the Korean peninsula at risk of invasion.
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Japan expressed "serious concern" to  North Korea on Saturday about its reported plan to test-fire a  ballistic missile but the Koreans did not respond, the head of  Japan's delegation at talks in Beijing was quoted as saying.
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North Korea has fired short-range missiles toward the Sea of Japan, Japan's Kyodo news agency reports.
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Japanese Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma   said on Friday that China's military build-up was a concern   rather than a threat, retracting earlier comments that had   triggered a rebuttal from Beijing.
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North Korea has accused the United States of threatening war by carrying out a test of its missile defense system and conducting joint military exercises with the South.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has criticized the reclusive country's traditional close allies China and Russia as unreliable, Japan's Kyodo news agency said.
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NORTH Korea has warned the imposition of economic sanctions by Japan would be treated as a declaration of war and that the Pyongyang regime would &quot;immediately react to it with powerful physical methods&quot;.
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Japan took a significant step away from the pacifism enshrined in its constitution yesterday when it announced new defence guidelines for the first time in nearly a decade.
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TOKYO In a once-a-decade defense review, Japan adopted plans on Friday to shift its military focus away from the northern cold war threat of invasion from Russia to guarding against missiles from North Korea or Chinese incursions on Japan&#39;s southernmost
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Japan and the United States will call for greater cooperation between troops of the two nations to address regional threats in a joint security statement to be released in February, a news report said.
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Japan's PM Yasuo Fukuda calls for greater discipline from defence officials following a series of scandals.
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Astana - Seoul, September 29 KAZINFORM -- North Korea denounced South Korea&#39;s renewed demand for the dismantlement of its nuclear weapons program through a multilateral forum, calling it &quot;an act of a thief wielding up a stick.
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Japan on Tuesday warned it would consider sanctions against North Korea after accusing the communist country of failing to properly investigate the fates of Japanese citizens it kidnapped years ago.
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Japan urged North Korea on Wednesday to comply with its international obligations amid reports the two countries had canceled an afternoon session of talks to establish diplomatic relations
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Japan and North Korea held a second day of talks Sunday in a dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by the North decades ago. Japan seized the occasion to express concern North
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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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SEOUL -- A day after indicating a willingness to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks, North Korea returned to its anti-American rhetoric yesterday, accusing the United States of being a "nuclear criminal" with double standards. North Korea's state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun accused Washington of "conniving at, patronizing, and cooperating with the pro-American forces" in Israel, Japan, and South Korea to develop nuclear ...