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Japan Does Not See North Korea As A Nuclear Power Foreign Minister
<b>Powerful Japanese Outspoken Lawmaker Calls Nagasaki Attack A Crime<br></b>Tokyo (AFP) Dec 17 - A senior Japanese lawmaker Sunday called the 1945 US atomic bombing on the city of Nagasaki a Outspoken Nakagawa, policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and a close aide to conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has repeatedly made hawkish remarks. These include calling for the pacifist nation to debate the possibility of possessing nuclear arms after North Korea tested its first-ever atom bomb. It is rare for senior politicians of Japan, Washington's close ally, to use such strong words to criticize the attacks.

"We should do our utmost to see that no weapon of mass destruction is ever used again," he said. "It is a matter of course that we should maintain the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty." Japan is the only country to have suffered a nuclear attack. US nuclear bombs obliterated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II, killing more than 210,000 people. "There are heaps of nuclear arms around Japan," he said, expressing concerns about North Korea's nuclear weapons. "They are said to be for deterrence, but there exists a country that appears likely to use them if it doesn't like something."">
Powerful Japanese Outspoken Lawmaker Calls Nagasaki Attack A Crime
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 17 - A senior Japanese lawmaker Sunday called the 1945 US atomic bombing on the city of Nagasaki a "crime" and "impermissible" from a humanitarian viewpoint, a report said. "The US decision to drop such a thing was truly impermissible on humanitarian grounds ... Atomic bombings are a crime," said Shoichi Nakagawa in his speech given in Nagasaki, quoted by Kyodo News agency.

Outspoken Nakagawa, policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and a close aide to conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has repeatedly made hawkish remarks. These include calling for the pacifist nation to debate the possibility of possessing nuclear arms after North Korea tested its first-ever atom bomb. It is rare for senior politicians of Japan, Washington's close ally, to use such strong words to criticize the attacks.

"We should do our utmost to see that no weapon of mass destruction is ever used again," he said. "It is a matter of course that we should maintain the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty." Japan is the only country to have suffered a nuclear attack. US nuclear bombs obliterated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II, killing more than 210,000 people. "There are heaps of nuclear arms around Japan," he said, expressing concerns about North Korea's nuclear weapons. "They are said to be for deterrence, but there exists a country that appears likely to use them if it doesn't like something."

by Staff Writers
 Tokyo (AFP) Dec 17, 2006
 Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Aso reiterated Sunday that Japan does not consider North Korea a nuclear power as envoys gather in Beijing for six-nation talks after a hiatus of more than a year. Asked by reporters if Japan recognizes the North as a nuclear power, Aso said, "No, it doesn't."

"I don't think it's considered so by the United States, China or Russia, either."

The six-party talks are due to resume Monday in Beijing after a 13-month hiatus during which North Korea tested an atom bomb.

Aso said the participating nations will face tough negotiations to convince Pyongyang to give up nuclear arms.

"The six-party talks are originally meant to stop North Korea from becoming a nuclear power," he said. "We have never had the talks while having to deal with the North claiming to have nuclear arms."

"This is the first time that we have the six-way negotiations after the North conducted the nuclear test, so we have to start from there and I don't think it would be easy."

Japan is one of the six nations committed to the negotiations, which include the two Koreas, China, Russia and the United States.

Source: Agence France-Presse

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