US Vice-President Mike Pence yesterday reaffirmed the need to work with Japan to maintain the sanctions campaign against North Korea until its denuclearisation, while also keeping up pressure on Tokyo to reduce its trade surplus with the US.
The Vice-President's remarks on North Korea, made in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe beside him, came a day after a report by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies think-tank showed that Pyongyang was secretly moving ahead with its ballistic missile programme with 16 hidden bases.
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