2005.05.01

Japan-Pakistan (VOA) Japan lifts freeze on loans to Pakistan. 2005.05.01

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DPRK Nuclear Test Could Change Dynamics in Asia (Reuters). North Korea needs to conduct a test to see if the vast sums it spent to develop atomic weapons have produced a working bomb, analysts say, but the political fall-out from such a blast could paralyze its already crippled economy. 2005.05.01

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DPRK-Missile (Kyodo) UPDATED North Korea fires short-range missile into the Sea of Japan. Here in Tokyo, government authorities apparently caught unaware and were sent scrambling for information after U.S. military passed on intelligence to Japan's Defense Agency. 2005.05.01

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U.S. military sources: DPRK may have fired a missile this morning into the Sea of Japan. 2005.05.01

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Japan-Train Crash (Kyodo) Head of railway responsible for killing 107 passengers says he won't resign. 2005.05.01

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DPRK Sees No Solution to Standoff (AP). North Korea calls President Bush a "hooligan" and says it expects no solution of the standoff over its nuclear program during his administration. 2005.05.01

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JR West Warned by Government Before Crash (Reuters). The Japanese transport ministry in March issued a "severe warning" to the operator of the train line where Japan's worst crash in over 40 years took place. 2005.05.01

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Pakistan, Japan in nuclear talks. [BBC News] Pakistan's President seeks to reassure the visiting Japanese Prime Minister over nuclear proliferation. 2005.05.01

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