Article: North Korea warns of resuming missile testing if Japan talks fail

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 ...

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