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Okada and Yang Argue over Chinese Nuclear Weapons

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Katsuya Okada and Jiechi Yang

Tokyo -- Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada had an angry exchange with his Chinese counterpart on Saturday, according to fresh reports.

Chinese Foreign Minister Jiechi Yang became enraged by Okada's repeated calls for a reduction in China's nuclear weapons arsenal.

During the trilateral meeting in the South Korean city of Gyeongju, which also involved South Korean Foreign Minister Myung-Hwan Yu, Okada pressed the issue of Chinese nuclear weapons, only to receive an increasingly angry respons...

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