Sunday, February 16, 2003
U.S. TO INCREASE ITS MILITARY FORCES IN JAPAN
Washington has told Tokyo of its plan to beef up its military forces in Japan to prepare for a possible emergency on the Korean Peninsula as tensions rise over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program and it focuses attention on Iraq, Japanese government sources said Sunday.
The Japanese government has welcomed the U.S. government's plan, given "the need for deterrence under the Japan-U.S. security arrangement in the Asia-Pacific region to remain effective," even when Washington attacks Iraq, according to the sources.
