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190201
Tue, 06/21/2011 - 19:12
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US, Japan vow closer ties with S. Korea to deter NK provocations
WASHINGTON, June 21 (Yonhap) -- The United States and Japan announced Tuesday that their common strategic goal is to head off North Korea's provocations and make the communist nation abandon its nuclear weapons programs.
After high-level talks among their defense chiefs and top diplomats, the two sides also said they will bolster trilateral alliance with South Korea.
The U.S. and Japan agreed that the strategic objective of the alliance is to "deter provocations by North Korea; achieve the complete, and verifiable denuclearization of North Korea, including its uranium enrichment program, through irreversible steps and, through the Six Party process; resolve issues related to proliferation, ballistic missiles, illicit activities, and humanitarian concerns, including the matter of (past) abductions by North Korea," according to a joint statement of their Security Consultative Committee meeting, the first since 2007.
The two nations will also "strengthen trilateral security and defense cooperation with both Australia and the Republic of Korea," it added.
The U.S. members of the session are Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and their Japanese counterparts are Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto and Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa.
The statement also called for China???s "responsible and constructive role" in regional stability and prosperity and urged the rising superpower to improve openness and transparency with respect to its military modernization.
After high-level talks among their defense chiefs and top diplomats, the two sides also said they will bolster trilateral alliance with South Korea.
The U.S. and Japan agreed that the strategic objective of the alliance is to "deter provocations by North Korea; achieve the complete, and verifiable denuclearization of North Korea, including its uranium enrichment program, through irreversible steps and, through the Six Party process; resolve issues related to proliferation, ballistic missiles, illicit activities, and humanitarian concerns, including the matter of (past) abductions by North Korea," according to a joint statement of their Security Consultative Committee meeting, the first since 2007.
The two nations will also "strengthen trilateral security and defense cooperation with both Australia and the Republic of Korea," it added.
The U.S. members of the session are Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and their Japanese counterparts are Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto and Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa.
The statement also called for China???s "responsible and constructive role" in regional stability and prosperity and urged the rising superpower to improve openness and transparency with respect to its military modernization.
