Japan and China agreed Sunday that a North Korea nuclear test «cannot be tolerated» and that Pyongyang should return unconditionally to negotiations on its nuclear programs, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said, according to AP. Abe, speaking to reporters at the end of a day of meetings in Beijing, said he and President Hu Jintao agreed that a North Korean nuclear test would be unacceptable. «We need to prevent a nuclear North Korea,» Abe said. «We saw eye-to-eye that North Korea's announcement of a nuclear test cannot be tolerated because it is a great threat to East Asia and the international community.» The two leaders urged North Korea to rejoin the six-nation talks, Abe said. Pyongyang has refused to attend the talks for over a year to protest financial sanctions imposed by the United States. Abe's Beijing trip, intended to ease tense relations between the two east Asian nations, took on added urgency after North Korea's announcement last Tuesday that it would conduct a nuclear test at an unspecified time.
