Wednesday, August 16, 2006

North Korea slams Koizumi's Tokyo war shrine visit

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Wednesday called a visit by Japan's prime minister to a Tokyo war shrine "a grave insult," in its first official reaction to the pilgrimage that enraged Seoul and Beijing.


Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday paid his respects at Yasukuni Shrine, where Japanese World War Two leaders convicted as war criminals along with 2.5 million war dead are enshrined.

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