(VOVworld) - The foreign ministers of Japan and France have agreed to continue to work together to push the UN Security Council to quickly adopt tougher sanctions against North Korea.
The agreement followed North Korea's recent launch of a long-range ballistic missile (khaama.com)
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The agreement followed North Korea's recent launch of a long-range ballistic missile. In a phone talk on Thursday, Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida asked France's Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault to support Japan in holding a foreign ministers' meeting of the Group of 7 nations in Hiroshima in April. Ayrault pledged to solidify bilateral relations.
Also on Thursday, US President Barack Obama signed a bill on intensifying sanctions against North Korea for defying the world with its nuclear weapons program