U.S. wants to boost Japan nuclear umbrella: paper

2009/07/16 21:55:36 @Reuters: International News

TOKYO (Reuters) - The United States plans discuss with Japan how to boost the nuclear deterrent it provides for its Asian ally, a senior U.S. official was quoted as saying on Friday amid regional tensions over North Korea's nuclear and missile tests. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=90o3ZbzurVQ:EJ6bdVi5NNg:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=90o3ZbzurVQ:EJ6bdVi5NNg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=90o3ZbzurVQ:EJ6bdVi5NNg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=90o3ZbzurVQ:EJ6bdVi5NNg:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=90o3ZbzurVQ:EJ6bdVi5NNg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/90o3ZbzurVQ" height="1" width="1"/
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