It is my policy to deepen the Japan-U.S. alliance and to deepen security and economic relations as well as personal exchanges.

With regard to North Korea, between myself and President Obama earlier, with regard to the so-called launch of satellite, the missile launch, we shared the view that it undermines the efforts of the various countries concerned to achieve the resolution through dialogue.

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

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