LDP panel calls for passage of bill banning N. Korean ships

TOKYO, Japan - Mitoji Yabunaka, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, heads to a Liberal Democratic Party foreign affairs panel meeting in Tokyo May 25. Many lawmakers expressed dissatisfaction with the outcome of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Pyongyang May 22 and called for a bill to ban port calls by North Korean ships to be passed during the current Diet session.

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