Gates pledges nuclear umbrella to counter North Korea

2009/10/21 23:26:58 @Reuters: International News

SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday that North Korea poses a threat to Washington's allies in North Asia and promised to protect them under the U.S. nuclear umbrella. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=pAGTUavyEFQ:aFX9ugjx3eY: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=pAGTUavyEFQ:aFX9ugjx3eY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=pAGTUavyEFQ:aFX9ugjx3eY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=pAGTUavyEFQ:aFX9ugjx3eY:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=pAGTUavyEFQ:aFX9ugjx3eY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/pAGTUavyEFQ" height="1" width="1"/
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