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Tuesday July 4, 10:09 PMLDP team calls for sanctions if N. Korea fires Taepodong-2 missile(Kyodo) _ Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party plans to urge the government to impose economic sanctions on North Korea immediately after the North fires its Taepodong-2 long-range ballistic missile, party members said Tuesday.Amid signs Pyongyang may be preparing to test-fire the missile, an LDP team studying economic sanctions on North Korea compiled a document with this and other proposals for submission to the government after approval at a meeting Wednesday of a higher panel, the members said. The team, headed by House of Councillors member Ichita Yamamoto, is working under the party task force on North Korea's abductions of Japanese citizens. On the abduction issue, the team criticized Pyongyang for the lack of new information provided by Kim Yong Nam, believed to be a South Korean abductee, on the fate of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota, with whom he was married, when he held a news conference in North Korea last week. "North Korean authorities are dealing with the matter unfaithfully," the document said, adding, "The stage has already come at which sanctions should be imposed." |
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