North Korean paper says Japan-US trade disputes growing.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of article by Ko Yong-hui entitled: "US-Japan 'agricultural products trade war' published by North Korean newspaper Nodong Sinmun on 23 September

Trade disputes between Japan and the United States are growing more acute.

Although they are in collusion, remain protective to each other, and babble about their relations of alliance in the political and military areas, Japan and the United States are escalating the confrontation and frictions between them in the economic area where they compete with each other over market expansion and trade rights.

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