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...real test will be how all six parties react once the talks resume - assuming, of course, the talks really do resume this year. (It's best to mark your calendar in pencil when you're dealing with North Korea.) U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer told a group of reporters earlier this month that North Korea simply returning to the talks wouldn't be enough for the U.S. to relax sanctions - a position Hill reiterated in Beijing...
...dictator Kim Jong Il, he has also displayed a conciliatory side during fence-mending visits to China and South Korea aimed at easing strained relations between Japan and its neighbors. Abe's approval ratings hover at 70%. "I think he's off to a fast start," U.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer said last week. Jeff Kingston, a professor of history at Temple University's Tokyo campus and a former Abe doubter, agrees: "In the campaign he didn't do anything to reassure those who wondered about his youth and inexperience. He has answered a lot of those questions...
...North Korea did not blink, and its launch of six missiles before dawn on Wednesday prompted a hastily convened 7 a.m. meeting in Tokyo between U.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer and Japan's Cabinet Secretary, Foreign Minister and Defense Agency Director. "This is a very dangerous thing that [North Korea has] done this morning," Schieffer told reporters after the meeting. The Japanese government, especially its foreign ministry, has been in a state of frenzied activity ever since...
...ambassador to Japan emphasized yesterday the strong role that America will play in Asia in the coming century. Relations between the two nations “have never been stronger,” U.S. Ambassador to Japan J. Thomas Schieffer said yesterday. In his first university visit since his appointment, Schieffer addressed a full audience in the Tsai Auditorium in CGIS South. Schieffer discussed the major political, economic, and diplomatic changes taking place in Japan and the role America has played in them. “We are a Pacific nation,” he said, citing the enduring interest...
...network source tells TIME the Today show co-anchor has been approached about the job. If she could be persuaded to jump, CBS would have to wait 16 months--when her NBC contract is up. But the network could name an old hand like Face the Nation's Bob Schieffer or Early Show host Harry Smith as a caretaker until then...