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G-7 affirms it will never accept nuke-armed N. Korea: Japan
Group of Seven foreign ministers affirmed Sunday they will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea and pledged to maintain "maximum pressure" on Pyongyang until it rids itself of nuclear weapons, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono said. "We fully agreed that we will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea," Kono said on the first day of a two-day meeting in Toronto, Canada, suggesting Pyongyang's announcement that it will suspend nuclear tests and long-range missile launches was insufficient to meet the demands of the international community. "We shared the view that (the North's announcement) made no ... (full story)