US, Japan Urge NK to Resume Nuke Talks
The United States and Japan have pressed North Korea to promptly return to the six-way nuclear talks and dismantle its atomic weapons.
In a bilateral meeting of defense and foreign ministers in Washington Monday, the two countries also urged Pyongyang to stop exporting nuclear technology, and halt other proliferation and illicit activities.
However, Washington and Tokyo stressed diplomatic means and refrained from threatening remarks in calling for a halt to the North's nuclear program.
The two sides also approved a planned realignment of U.S. bases in Japan by 2014 that would boost Japan's security role in the Asia-Pacific.
Under the plan, the first U.S. Army headquarters in the U.S. state of Washington will move to Camp Zama in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture in 2008 as a comprehensive base combining the army, navy and air force.
Japan's Air Self Defense Force headquarters will relocate to the Yokoda air base in Tokyo in 2010 for further bolstering of bilateral alliance.
The U.S. marine stationed in Okinawa will move to Guam by 2014 with Tokyo footing six billion dollars of the relocation cost.
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