US Tells Japan to Heat up Economy for 'Global Growth'

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US Tells Japan to Fire Up Economy for 'Global Growth'
North Korea denounces remarks of Japan's US Ambassador


Agence France Press - 5 December 2001
http://www.afp.com/english/home/

US frets over Japanese deflation

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Japan must halt deflation and boost its economy
for the sake of global growth, Deputy US Treasury Secretary Kenneth
Dam said here on the eve of a four-day visit to Tokyo.

"It is important to us and the world economy that Japan return to
economic growth," Dam told a news conference Tuesday, as
international concern mounted over the world's second-biggest
economy.

(c) 2001 AFP

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Korean News Agency KCNA (Pyongyang) - December 4, 2001
http://www.kcna.co.jp/contents/04.htm#1

Diatribe of Japanese ambassador to U.S. under fire

Pyongyang, December 4 (KCNA) -- The "National Alliance for Democracy
and Reunification" in South Korea reportedly released a statement on
November 30 denouncing the Japanese ambassador to the united states
for his reckless remarks pulling up the DPRK. Ryozo Kato, Japanese
ambassador to the U.S., at a news conference in Washington on Nov. 27
said that the "international community should increase pressure on
North Korea to accept U.N. inspections of its alleged programs to
develop weapons of mass-destruction."

The statement said that only Japan, a war criminal, could do such a
base thing as demanding inspection of the north, which has nothing to
do with terrorism and the weapons of mass destruction, echoing the
u.s. assertion.

It is none other than the U.S. which perpetrates terrorism in every
part of the world and kills a great number of civilians with its
weapons of mass destruction and Japan is certainly conspiring with
the U.S. in disturbing peace, it noted.

The statement continued:

Japan is not qualified to talk about the military sovereignty of
other country. And the same can be said of the U.S.

We state on behalf of all the fellow countrymen that we will wage an
uninterrupted struggle to check the U.S. war maneuvers and Japan's
rearmament to become a military power.


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