| [Kyodo: Korea] Prime Minister Taro Aso and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed Saturday on the need for the U.N. Security Council to adopt a new resolution on North Korea, including additional sanctions against the country for conducting a nuclear test, a Japanese government official said. Aso and Medvedev agreed on the matter during telephone talks after PyongyangŽs second underground nuclear test conducted Monday, following its first such experiment in October 2006 which sparked strong criticism from the international community. |