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(240411) -- PYONGYANG, April 11, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhao Leji, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of China's National People's Congress Standing Committee, and Choe Ryong Hae, a member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), witness the signing of cooperation documents in the fields including reciprocal exemption of diplomatic and service visas, mutual translation and publication of classical literatures, customs quarantine, radio and television, and postal delivery after their talks in Pyongyang, the DPRK, April 11, 2024. Zhao Leji held talks with Choe Ryong Hae in Pyongyang on Thursday. (Xinhua/Zhang Ling)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden leaves the Diplomatic Reception Room after delivering remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden stops to listen to a question shouted from a reporter after delivering remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden walks into the Diplomatic Reception Room to deliver remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden walks into the Diplomatic Reception Room to deliver remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case in the Diplomatic Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case in the Diplomatic Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case in the Diplomatic Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case in the Diplomatic Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case in the Diplomatic Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case in the Diplomatic Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case in the Diplomatic Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case in the Diplomatic Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden Delivers Remarks on the Special Counsels Classified Documents Report

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in response to the release of the Special Counsel’s report in the classified documents case in the Diplomatic Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Special Counsel Robert Hur released his report in the case regarding classified material being found in President Bidens home today in which he criticized the Presidents actions but declined to bring charges. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden speaks after release of special counsel's report

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks after the release of special counsel's report on the classified documents found in his home in the Diplomatic Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden speaks after release of special counsel's report

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks after the release of special counsel's report on the classified documents found in his home in the Diplomatic Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden speaks after release of special counsel's report

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks after the release of special counsel's report on the classified documents found in his home in the Diplomatic Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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DC: President Joe Biden speaks after release of special counsel's report

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks after the release of special counsel's report on the classified documents found in his home in the Diplomatic Room at the White House on February 8, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM)

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S. Korea to disclose diplomatic documents on ties with Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Soo Hyuck briefs reporters in Seoul on Dec. 28 on the government's plan to make public five sets of diplomatic documents exchanged with Japan for the normalization of relations between the two countries in 1965.

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Ex-envoy's kin unveils hidden WWII classified telegrams

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuko Ichihara (L), a niece of the wife of a late Japanese diplomat, shows the bounded volume of classified diplomatic telegrams from World War II that she found while sorting out belongings of a deceased relative in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2014. The documents secretly kept by Ryuji Takeuchi, Japan's ambassador to the United States after the war, shows that Japan's wartime foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, in May 1944 considered asking the Soviet Union to broker an agreement to end war with China.

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Swiss documents about Japan 150 years ago on show

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Documents, photos and other items about Japan collected by a Swiss diplomatic mission some 150 years ago go on display at the Yokohama Archives of History in Yokohama west of Tokyo on July 16, 2014.

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Ruling on secret Okinawa return deal

TOKYO, Japan - Takichi Nishiyama, a former reporter for major Japanese daily The Mainichi Shimbun, holds a press conference in Tokyo on July 14, 2014, after he and other plaintiffs lost a lawsuit against the state over the disclosure of secret diplomatic documents concerning the 1972 reversion of Okinawa to Japan from U.S. control. Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court's acknowledgement that the government may have surreptitiously destroyed the documents, but rejected the plaintiffs' appeal over the Tokyo High Court decision not to order the government to disclose them.

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Diplomatic documents declassified

TOKYO, Japan - A 1953 file photo shows a gate at then Sugamo Prison in Tokyo. Japanese diplomatic documents declassified on March 7, 2013, show that after regaining its sovereignty under the 1952 San Francisco Peace Treaty, Japan strongly urged the United States to approve the early release of or reduced sentences for Class-A and other war criminals held at the prison.

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Diplomatic documents declassified

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo shows former U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. Japanese diplomatic documents declassified on March 7, 2013, show prosecutors at the Tokyo war crime trials following Japan's surrender in 1945 closely looked into the delay in delivering Roosevelt's letter to the Japanese emperor on the eve of war, apparently to establish that the Japanese foreign minister was responsible for failing to stop Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Diplomatic documents declassified

TOKYO, Japan - A 1945 file photo shows part of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Japanese diplomatic documents declassified on March 7, 2013, show reporters from the victorious allies tried to interview then Emperor Hirohito at the palace while soldiers visited an imperial villa and demanded a guide to it.

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Diplomatic documents declassified

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo shows former Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda. Japanese diplomatic documents declassified on March 7, 2013, show that Fukuda, then foreign minister, expressed discontent over an attempt by the United States to use the historic 1971 meeting between Emperor Hirohito and U.S. President Richard Nixon in Alaska for political purposes.

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Diplomatic documents declassified

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows part of Japanese diplomatic documents declassified at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on March 7, 2013.

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Declassified diplomatic documents

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 15, 2012, shows declassified diplomatic documents, including a document related to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, at the Diplomatic Archives of the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo. The documents were declassified the same day.

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Court overturns ruling on disclosure of Okinawa reversion papers

TOKYO, Japan - Former Mainichi Shimbun reporter Takichi Nishiyama (L) and other plaintiffs hold a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 29, 2011, after the Tokyo High Court overturned a landmark lower court ruling that had ordered the state to disclose diplomatic documents on the 1972 reversion of Okinawa to Japan from U.S. control.

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Declassified diplomatic documents

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 22, 2010, at the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Diplomatic Record Office in Tokyo shows diplomatic documents declassified the same day. Some of the documents relate to a Japan-U.S. campaign to sway in 1968 the first public election for the head of the Ryukyu government, or Okinawa, then under U.S. rule.

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Ahmadinejad downplays WikiLeaks feuds

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a press conference in Tehran on Nov. 29, 2010, denying Iran's relationships with its neighboring countries would be affected by WikiLeaks' disclosures of U.S. diplomatic cables. One of the documents claimed that Saudi Arabia asked the United States for military action against Iran to halt its suspected nuclear program.

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Ministry viewed nukes entry into Japan as effective deterrent in 1960s

TOKYO, Japan - Diplomatic documents totaling 8,100 pages are unveiled to the media at the Diplomatic Record Office of the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on July 7, 2010. The documents consist of eight files concerning the revision of the Japan-U.S. security treaty in 1960 and 29 files concerning the reversion of U.S.-occupied Okinawa to Japan in 1972.

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Court orders state to disclose Okinawa reversion papers

TOKYO, Japan - Takichi Nishiyama (L), a former reporter of the major daily Mainichi Shimbun, and other plaintiffs arrive at the Tokyo District Court on April 9, 2010. The court ordered the state to disclose diplomatic documents on the 1972 reversion of Okinawa, fully backing the plaintiffs in a suit.

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Court orders state to disclose Okinawa reversion papers

TOKYO, Japan - Takichi Nishiyama (C), a former reporter of the major daily Mainichi Shimbun, beams at a press conference in Tokyo on April 9, 2010, after the Tokyo District Court ordered the state to disclose diplomatic documents on the 1972 reversion of Okinawa, fully backing him and 24 other plaintiffs in a suit.

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Court orders state to disclose Okinawa reversion papers

TOKYO, Japan - Takichi Nishiyama (R), a former reporter of the major daily Mainichi Shimbun, beams at a press conference in Tokyo on April 9, 2010, after the Tokyo District Court ordered the state to disclose diplomatic documents on the 1972 reversion of Okinawa, fully backing him and 24 other plaintiffs in a suit.

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S. Korea releases 1965 Japan-S. Korea pact archives

SEOUL, South Korea - In a file photo taken in November 1962, then Japanese Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira (R) and Kim Jong Pil (C), who was the chief of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, at in talks at the Japanese Foreign Ministry. The South Korean government released on Aug. 26 diplomatic documents detailing behind-the-scenes negotiations between Japan and South Korea over reparations for Korean victims during Japan's colonial rule and other issues prior to the normalization of bilateral ties in 1965.

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Exhibition marking 150th anniv. of Russo-Japan ties opens

MOSCOW, Russia - People look at historical documents at the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow on Feb. 9 as an exhibition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Russia opened the same day.

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(2)S. Korea agreed to make no compensation demands of Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - Relatives of Korean victims of World War II demonstrate Jan. 17 in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul after the South Korean government made declassified diplomatic documents public earlier in the day. The documents show Seoul must tackle compensation demands from individuals who suffered under the Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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(1)S. Korea agreed to make no compensation demands of Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - Relatives of Korean victims of World War II take to the streets Jan. 17 in Seoul after the South Korean government made declassified diplomatic documents public earlier in the day. The documents show Seoul must tackle compensation demands from individuals who suffered under the Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

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Russia, Kazakhstan seek to strengthen cooperation

STORY: Russia, Kazakhstan seek to strengthen cooperation DATELINE: Nov. 30, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:05 LOCATION: Moscow CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev meeting 2. Putin, Tokayev signing documents 3. various of the 18th Russia-Kazakhstan Inter-regional Cooperation Forum and Tokayev speaking STORYLINE: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a cooperation document on Monday as the two countries mark three decades of diplomatic ties this year. The Declaration on the 30th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Russia and Kazakhstan contains 37 articles and stipulates efforts to deepen bilateral cooperation in the fields of politics, economy, defense, culture, education, health care, youth and sports. Before inking the document, Putin and Tokayev took part via video link in the 18th Russia-Kazakhstan Inter-regional Cooperation Forum held in the Russian city of Oren

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Exhibition marking 150th anniv. of Russo-Japan ties opens

MOSCOW, Russia - People look at historical documents at the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow on Feb. 9 as an exhibition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Russia opened the same day. (Kyodo)

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Johnson pressed Sato to pay money to fight communists in S.E. As

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato (L) is in talks with U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in a photo taken at the White House in Nove,ber 1967. When the United States was bogged down in the Vietnam War in 1967, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson pressed Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato to contribute $500 million to the Asian Development Bank to help stabilize Southeast Asian countries economically and to block communists from eventually gaining strength there, according to Japanese diplomatic documents declassified on Aug. 30. (Kyodo)

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S. Korea releases 1965 Japan-S. Korea pact archives

SEOUL, South Korea - In a file photo taken in November 1962, then Japanese Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira (R) and Kim Jong Pil (C), who was the chief of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, at in talks at the Japanese Foreign Ministry. The South Korean government released on Aug. 26 diplomatic documents detailing behind-the-scenes negotiations between Japan and South Korea over reparations for Korean victims during Japan's colonial rule and other issues prior to the normalization of bilateral ties in 1965. (Kyodo)

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Info disclosure on secret pact sought to ensure democracy

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs and their lawyers involved in a lawsuit over the disclosure of diplomatic documents on the 1972 reversion of Okinawa hold a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 16, 2010. The Tokyo District Court, which concluded the final hearing of the suit the same day, will hand down its ruling on April 9. (Kyodo)

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S. Korea to disclose diplomatic documents on ties with Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Soo Hyuck briefs reporters in Seoul on Dec. 28 on the government's plan to make public five sets of diplomatic documents exchanged with Japan for the normalization of relations between the two countries in 1965. (Kyodo)

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(1)S. Korea agreed to make no compensation demands of Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - Relatives of Korean victims of World War II take to the streets Jan. 17 in Seoul after the South Korean government made declassified diplomatic documents public earlier in the day. The documents show Seoul must tackle compensation demands from individuals who suffered under the Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. (Kyodo)