North Korea must abandon nuclear threat: Japan

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WARSAW: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Tuesday insisted that North Korea must abandon its nuclear armaments program in an irreversible and verifiable manner.

In an interview published in the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita just before his arrival in Poland, Koizumi said that all diplomatic and peaceful means should be used to find a solution to the crisis over North Korea.

“Categorically, we cannot allow North Korea to continue its program of nuclear armament, to possess atomic weapons and cause them to proliferate,” he said.

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