November 30, 2010 07:24 am | Updated November 17, 2021 05:28 am IST - TOKYO
Japan’s foreign minister says Tokyo will not participate in negotiations with North Korea if the country doesn’t honour previous agreements.
Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara said in a television interview late Monday that such talks were “impossible” after North Korea hit a South Korean island with an artillery barrage.
China last week called for an emergency session of chief negotiators to the six-nation talks, which are aimed at convincing North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons programme.
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