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Japan today downplayed South Korea’s offer to hold military talks with North Korea, saying the priority should be piling pressure on Pyongyang through sanctions.
Japan’s foreign ministry spokesman Norio Maruyama told reporters today in New York where Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida was attending a UN meeting on development.
Maruyama said this is a time to raise pressure in order to conduct a serious dialogue. South Korea’s defence ministry proposed a meeting to be held Friday at the border truce village of Panmunjom to ease tensions after Pyongyang tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile.