Japan foreign minister, U.N. chief see need to keep North Korea sanctions

Foreign Minister Taro Kono and visiting U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres agreed Thursday on the need to maintain sanctions against North Korea to prompt it to denuclearize.Kono and Guterres also confirmed they will cooperate in nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation toward the goal of creating a world free of nuclear weapons, according to Japan's Foreign Ministry.They held talks in Nagasaki where Guterres became the first sitting U.N. chief to attend a ceremony to mark the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city on Aug. 9.As Tokyo has been calling for U.N. reform, Kono expressed hope …READ FULL ARTICLE