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Japan Rejects North Korea's Demand for Reactors Before Disarmament

Posted on: Tuesday, 20 September 2005, 00:00 CDT

Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo

Tokyo, 20 September: Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura criticized on Tuesday [20 September] North Korea's insistence that it be given light-water nuclear reactors before dismantling its nuclear weapons

. Machimura said such a demand is "unacceptable." North Korea said in its statement earlier in the day that it will not dismantle its nuclear weapons and not return to the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty until it is given the reactors.


Source: BBC Monitoring Newsfile

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