2005.06.22

Japan-Whaling (VOA) UPDATED Japan vows its whale culls will go on -- and even expand -- despite pleas to stop from the international body dedicated to whaling. 2005.06.22

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DPRK Makes Pledge Over Nuclear Weapons (AP). North Korea says it won't need any nuclear weapons if the United States treats it like a friend, as the isolated nation joins South Korea for high-level reconciliation talks. 2005.06.22

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PRC Says DPRK Wants Nuke Talks Resumed  (Reuters). A top Chinese Communist Party official who met reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il this year says he believes the North wants to resume stalled six-party talks over its nuclear program. 2005.06.22

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Japan-Whaling (Mainichi) Coming soon to a Hokkaido hamburger chain -- whale burgers. Meanwhile Japan suffers setbacks for its pro-whaling platform at the IWC meeting in Ulsan, South Korea. 2005.06.22

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Japan-Cartel (Kyodo) Japan's Fair Trade Commission cracks down on cell phone ringtone cartel. 2005.06.22

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Okinawa-U.S. Military (Stars & Stripes) U.S. Marine on Okinawa blames 50-cent beer night for rape spree. 2005.06.22

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Japan-Whaling (AP) In a setback for Japan, IWC upholds commercial whaling moratorium. 2005.06.22

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