North Korea criticized President Bush today for expressing deep concern about Pyongyang's nuclear
weapons program but says it was still neither against nor
shunning six-party talks on the plan.
An international AIDS conference
ended in Kobe today with warnings that a window of
opportunity to reverse the epidemic in Asia, where an explosion
of the disease may loom, is closing rapidly and urgent action
is needed.
Parliament OK's Koizumi's pet project of postal reform by small margin of 233 to 228-- meaning the prime minister will not be forced to dissolve the Diet and call new elections. But the revolt by LDP rebels was larger than in numbers than expected.