Japan backs UN action on N.Korea

GEO 436 TOKYO: Japan said Monday it supports Seoul’’s push to punish North Korea at the UN Security Council for sinking a South Korean warship and is also studying more sanctions of its own against Pyongyang. A multinational investigation last week found that a North Korean submarine torpedoed a South Korean corvette in March, killing 46 sailors. Asked about Tokyo’’s position, Japan’’s top government spokesman Hirofumi Hirano said: “We strongly support South Korea.” “It is assumed that Japan, the United States and South Korea will fully coordinate efforts,” he told a regular press conference. “We hope that China will come to share our view.”

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