Article: North Korea: United States, Japan should be excluded from Northeast Asia security discussions

SOO-JEONG LEE, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
04-13-2005
Dateline: SEOUL, South Korea
North Korea on Wednesday called for regional security talks among Northeast Asian nations, but said the United States and Japan should be excluded.

"The countries that have interest in Northeast Asian regional security issues and the countries that lie together should gather and discuss security issues, and must make active efforts to exclude the United States and Japan," the main Rodong Sinmun daily wrote in a commentary carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.

Since the United States lies across the Pacific Ocean and Japan is an island separated from the rest of Asia, they have ...

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