Bush, Japan’s Prime Minister Call for N. Korea to Honor Agreement

04/27/2007

By William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 27, 2007


President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today demanded that North Korea honor an agreement to give up its nuclear weapons program and warned that tougher sanctions loom if it fails to do so.

In a joint press conference with the visiting Japanese leader at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, Bush said the patience of the United States and its allies "is not unlimited," and he denied that he has softened his approach toward the reclusive communist regime in Pyongyang.

Bush also repeated his vow to veto an emergency war-funding bill that includes a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and billions of dollars in unrelated domestic spending. The House of Representatives passed a final version of the bill Wednesday and the Senate followed suit yesterday.

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