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UNCLAS TOKYO 004686 
 
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STATE FOR I/RF, PA/PR/FPC/W, IIP/G/EA, EAP/PD, R/MR, 
EAP/J, EAP/P, PM; 
USTR FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE; 
TREASURY FOR OASIA/IMI; 
SECDEF FOR OASD/PA; 
CP BUTLER OKINAWA FOR AREA FIELD OFFICE; 
PACOM HONOLULU FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ADVISOR 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: OIIP KMDR KPAO JA
SUBJECT: TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - SIX-PARTY TALKS AND 
INTER-KOREAN SUMMIT 
 
 
LEAD STORIES: Most Tuesday dailies led with a move by 
the Education Ministry to effectively retract its 
earlier instruction that Japanese history textbooks 
should remove references to the Imperial Japanese 
Army's direct involvement in the mass suicides of local 
 
residents that occurred in the final days of the Battle 
 
of Okinawa in 1945. 
 
¶1. "No Compromise on Nuclear Disablement" The liberal 
Mainichi wrote in an editorial (10/2): "The North 
Korean nuclear threat will remain even after the 
disablement of three facilities in Yongbyon. As these 
plants have already served their purpose, there is a 
growing view that their disablement will not 
disadvantage North Korea. The nuclear issue cannot be 
settled unless the DPRK surrenders all its nuclear 
weapons and existing nuclear programs, as it pledged to 
 
do in the September 2005 round of the six-party talks. 
Even if the three facilities are disabled within this 
year, all nuclear-related facilities must eventually be 
 
disabled. The apparent weakening of the US position on 
the definition of 'disablement' is also a source of 
concern.... The bottom line is that the members of the 
six-party talks must not compromise and allow 
disablement to be vaguely defined. The same thing can 
be said regarding the issue of declaring its nuclear 
weapons and programs. If North Korea insists that it 
has no highly enriched uranium program, appropriate 
measures must be devised to completely clarify the 
allegations. Problems must not be left for the future." 
 
¶2. "Aid to DPRK Problematic" The conservative Sankei 
editorialized (10/2): "In his planned summit with DPRK 
leader Kim Jong Il, ROK President Roh hopes to discuss 
the establishment of a peace regime between North and 
South Korea, as well as an initiative aimed at forming 
an 'economic community for joint prosperity.' By taking 
 
advantage of its overwhelming economic supremacy, South 
 
Korea hopes to bring change to North Korea in the mid- 
to long-term through economic assistance and 
cooperation.... As a former leader in his own country's 
 
democratization movement, Roh always stresses 
democracy.... Rather than aid, he should discuss with 
Kim Jong Il freedom and democracy for the North Korean 
people while keeping in mind that country's cruel 
authoritarian reign." 
 
DONOVAN