シドニーモーニングヘラルドＷＥＢ版の記事です。
日本のメディアはすっかり酩酊醜態大臣の記事が中心になっていますが、シドニーモーニングヘラルドは、日本でのクリントン国務大臣を冷静に報道しています。
http://www.smh.com.au/world/clinton-warns-north-korea-over-missile-test-20090217-8a9o.html
Clinton warns North Korea over missile test
February 18, 2009
The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in her first full day on a week-long tour of Asia, warned North Korea yesterday not to undertake a test of a long-range missile.
"The possible missile launch that North Korea is talking about would be very unhelpful in moving our relationship forward," Mrs Clinton said after a meeting with the Japanese Foreign Minister, Hirofumi Nakasone.
She renewed a US offer for normal ties and a peace treaty with North Korea if it verifiably and completely eliminates its nuclear weapons program. "If North Korea abides by the obligations it has already entered into and verifiably and completely eliminates its nuclear program, then there will be a reciprocal response," Mrs Clinton said.
North Korea's sabre-rattling has cast a shadow over Mrs Clinton's inaugural foreign trip, as has Japan's deteriorating economy.
Mrs Clinton reaffirmed the importance of the alliance between Japan and the US, bringing an invitation from President Barack Obama to Prime Minister Taro Aso to meet him at the White House next Tuesday. He will be the first foreign leader received at the White House.
In Mrs Clinton's first bit of diplomatic business, the US and Japan signed an agreement to begin shifting thousands of marines from Okinawa to Guam, part of a realignment of troops in the Pacific. Okinawans have long been reluctant hosts for more than half of the 40,000 US troops based in Japan.
Later she met Japan's Empress Michiko and, separately, with families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s.
During the closed-door meeting with abductees' families, the relatives handed her a letter urging the Obama Administration to "seriously consider relisting North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism" after it was taken off the list last year.
The group's chairman, Shigeo Iizuka, whose sister was abducted by the communist state, told reporters that Mrs Clinton assured the group that the US would handle the matter "as a significant issue".
Mr Nakasone said her meeting underscored American support for the abductees, an issue that stirs deep animosity towards North Korea in Japan.
As she arrived in Japan on Monday, North Korea issued an oblique statement responding to news reports that it was preparing to test-launch a Taepodong-2 missile from a base on its east coast. "One will come to know later what will be launched," the North's state-run news agency, KCNA, said.
In Seoul, the South Korean Defence Minister, Lee Sang-hee, said North Korea had been preparing to test a Taepodong-2 missile since January.
日本のメディアはすっかり酩酊醜態大臣の記事が中心になっていますが、シドニーモーニングヘラルドは、日本でのクリントン国務大臣を冷静に報道しています。
http://www.smh.com.au/world/clinton-warns-north-korea-over-missile-test-20090217-8a9o.html
Clinton warns North Korea over missile test
February 18, 2009
The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in her first full day on a week-long tour of Asia, warned North Korea yesterday not to undertake a test of a long-range missile.
"The possible missile launch that North Korea is talking about would be very unhelpful in moving our relationship forward," Mrs Clinton said after a meeting with the Japanese Foreign Minister, Hirofumi Nakasone.
She renewed a US offer for normal ties and a peace treaty with North Korea if it verifiably and completely eliminates its nuclear weapons program. "If North Korea abides by the obligations it has already entered into and verifiably and completely eliminates its nuclear program, then there will be a reciprocal response," Mrs Clinton said.
North Korea's sabre-rattling has cast a shadow over Mrs Clinton's inaugural foreign trip, as has Japan's deteriorating economy.
Mrs Clinton reaffirmed the importance of the alliance between Japan and the US, bringing an invitation from President Barack Obama to Prime Minister Taro Aso to meet him at the White House next Tuesday. He will be the first foreign leader received at the White House.
In Mrs Clinton's first bit of diplomatic business, the US and Japan signed an agreement to begin shifting thousands of marines from Okinawa to Guam, part of a realignment of troops in the Pacific. Okinawans have long been reluctant hosts for more than half of the 40,000 US troops based in Japan.
Later she met Japan's Empress Michiko and, separately, with families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s.
During the closed-door meeting with abductees' families, the relatives handed her a letter urging the Obama Administration to "seriously consider relisting North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism" after it was taken off the list last year.
The group's chairman, Shigeo Iizuka, whose sister was abducted by the communist state, told reporters that Mrs Clinton assured the group that the US would handle the matter "as a significant issue".
Mr Nakasone said her meeting underscored American support for the abductees, an issue that stirs deep animosity towards North Korea in Japan.
As she arrived in Japan on Monday, North Korea issued an oblique statement responding to news reports that it was preparing to test-launch a Taepodong-2 missile from a base on its east coast. "One will come to know later what will be launched," the North's state-run news agency, KCNA, said.
In Seoul, the South Korean Defence Minister, Lee Sang-hee, said North Korea had been preparing to test a Taepodong-2 missile since January.
