Japan, US warn NKorea against missile test-firing

Japan and the United States sent a fresh
warning to North Korea today against test-firing a
missile, as the allies agreed to step up efforts to stop a
launch that would disturb regional peace, The Associated Press
quoted the Japanese Foreign Ministry as saying.
Stephen W. Bosworth, the new U.S. envoy on the North, and
his Japanese counterpart, Akitaka Saiki, agreed «to urge
North Korea not to take an action that would harm the
region's peace and stability,» the ministry said in a
statement.
The two envoys said a launch _ even that of a satellite as
Pyongyang claims _ would violate U.N. Security Council
resolutions, and agreed to cooperate, along with Seoul, to
achieve denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, the
ministry said.