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70% say government wrong to give North Korea aid.
(From The Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri)
70% say government wrong to give North Korea aid
Yomiuri
Nearly 70 percent of people surveyed disapproved of the government's humanitarian aid to North Korea, while almost the same percentage were in favor of imposing economic sanctions on the country if talks on missing Japanese abductees remain at a standstill, according to a nationwide survey by The Yomiuri Shimbun.
The meager results of an investigation into the fate of the 10 missing Japanese presented by Pyongyang at a second working-level meeting held in Beijing immediately before the survey appeared to have stoked public opposition to the government's assistance program.
The survey, conducted Sept. 27-28, covered 1,002 randomly selected eligible voters nationwide who were interviewed by telephone.
The government has decided to offer North Korea food and medical aid worth 5.2 billion yen--about half of what Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi promised at an earlier summit meeting between Japan and North Korea. The survey revealed that 70 percent of the respondents disagreed with the ...
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