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11-03-2006, 10:48 PM
N.Korea says Japan not welcome at nuclear talks :slap:
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Saturday that Japan was just a territory of the United States and should not bother to attend six-country talks on ending its nuclear weapons programme, which are expected to resume in the next month.
North Korea agreed on Tuesday to return to the talks involving the two Koreas, Japan, China, Russia and the United States after staying away for a year in protest of a U.S. crackdown on its international finances.
"It would be much better for Japan to refrain from participating in the six-party talks and less attendants would be not bad for making the talks fruitful," a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by KCNA news agency.
"It is the view of the DPRK that since the U.S. attends the six-party talks, there is no need for Japan to participate in them as a local delegate because it is no more than a state of the U.S. and it is enough for Tokyo just to be informed of the results of the talks by Washington."
North Korea has feuded with Japan over the abduction of at least 13 Japanese citizens in the 1970s and the 1980s, and criticised Japan for raising the issue at the six-way talks.
Tokyo has been active in implementing U.N. sanctions after the North launched ballistic missiles in July and in moving to apply additional U.N. measures after Pyongyang conducted its first nuclear test on October 9.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-11-04T014006Z_01_SEO275333_RTRUKOC_0_UK-KOREA-NORTH-JAPAN.xml&WTmodLoc=HP-C3-World-6
Sat Nov 4, 2006 1:40 AM GMThttp://i.today.reuters.co.uk/images/spacer.gif
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Saturday that Japan was just a territory of the United States and should not bother to attend six-country talks on ending its nuclear weapons programme, which are expected to resume in the next month.
North Korea agreed on Tuesday to return to the talks involving the two Koreas, Japan, China, Russia and the United States after staying away for a year in protest of a U.S. crackdown on its international finances.
"It would be much better for Japan to refrain from participating in the six-party talks and less attendants would be not bad for making the talks fruitful," a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by KCNA news agency.
"It is the view of the DPRK that since the U.S. attends the six-party talks, there is no need for Japan to participate in them as a local delegate because it is no more than a state of the U.S. and it is enough for Tokyo just to be informed of the results of the talks by Washington."
North Korea has feuded with Japan over the abduction of at least 13 Japanese citizens in the 1970s and the 1980s, and criticised Japan for raising the issue at the six-way talks.
Tokyo has been active in implementing U.N. sanctions after the North launched ballistic missiles in July and in moving to apply additional U.N. measures after Pyongyang conducted its first nuclear test on October 9.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-11-04T014006Z_01_SEO275333_RTRUKOC_0_UK-KOREA-NORTH-JAPAN.xml&WTmodLoc=HP-C3-World-6