North Korea, Japan horizontal field air force base (ap)-U.S. defense secretary Leon palmer in attack on Monday in tower as "reckless and provocative" behavior, and criticism of China's secret military strength expansion.
Palmer inside tower, in the arrived in the United States air force base for a week, the second stop of the Asia trip, talked about north Korea and China on Monday, before he arrived in Japan in Yomiyuri newspaper announced a public opinion piece.
He wrote, Washington and Tokyo's share in the Asia Pacific region face a common challenges. "These measures include north Korea, continue to be engaged in reckless and provocation, and developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, that's not the only Japanese, but also to the entire region a threat," he wrote.
With the U.S. and Japanese army at the three questions and yoji his recent question-and-answer session, he said in the tower, although to unveil budget cuts will be in Asia and the Pacific no reduction in U.S. troops.
Instead, he said, Obama government intends to the area to "strengthen our position."
In the words of the strong tower was the talk, the United States and the north Korean officials gathered in Geneva talks, Washington said, the purpose is to decide whether Pyongyang to return to nuclear disarmament talks severe.
Japan also worry about north Korea and five common trying to persuade north Korea to cap and turning them one of the countries of the nuclear weapons program. Four other country is the United States, China, Russia and South Korea.
Palmer tower in the criticism of China.
"Rapid, China is its military modernization," he wrote, in Monday's public opinion a "disturbing lack, plus more and more assertive, in east Asia and the activities of transparency, but the south China sea."
He wrote, Japan and the United States will work together to "encourage China in the international society play responsible role."
After a day, Bali in Indonesia, he provide more about China tower in the positive evaluation. He told reporters, Beijing for a relatively mild worthy of the reaction, the dollar $580 million arms sales to Taiwan announced in September the consistent high praise.
The tower was not to visit China in this, his first trip to Asia, since the July become the pentagon chief.




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