U.S. Secretary Of Defense Gates In Japan For Talks On North Korea And Defense Issues

TOKYO QUESTION - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Japanese Defense Mnister Kitazawa Toshimi listen to a reporter's question during a joint press conference at the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo, Jan. 13, 2011. DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison

Gates In Tokyo For Talks On North Korea -- New York Times

TOKYO — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday night for talks with Prime Minister Naoto Kan and foreign and defense officials focusing on North Korea’s nuclear program as well as Mr. Gates’s new assessment that Pyongyang would have a missile capable of hitting the United States within five years.

Mr. Gates arrived after a visit to Beijing meant to build ties between the mutually suspicious American and Chinese militaries. He spent part of Wednesday morning at the headquarters of China’s strategic missile command, the Second Artillery Corps. Donald H. Rumsfeld visited the missile command center as defense minister in 2005, but it is rare for the center to open its doors to American officials.

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