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Article: North Korea warns of resuming missile testing if Japan talks fail
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- November 6, 2002
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North Korea warns of resuming missile testing if Japan talks fail
By HOWARD W. FRENCH New York Times
Wednesday, November 6, 2002
Tokyo -- North Korea warned on Tuesday that unless relations with
Japan were quickly normalized it would resume its testing of
ballistic missiles.
The thinly veiled threat was issued by an unidentified Foreign
Ministry spokesman less than a week after the first high-level talks
between the two countries in two years, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
ended in an angry stalemate.
Tuesday's statement said the "relevant organs" would "reconsider
the moratorium on the missile test-fire in case the talks on
normalizing the relations between North Korea and Japan get prolonged ...