| [Kyodo: Korea] North Korea expressed disappointment Thursday at the resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Wednesday for yielding to U.S. pressure and breaking his pledge to relocate a U.S. Marine base outside Okinawa Prefecture. Ro Jong Su, a director-level researcher at the North Korean Foreign Ministry, also said in an interview in Pyongyang the ruling Grand National Party"s defeat in South Korean local elections Wednesday showed the South Korean public ""turned its back on the administration of (President) Lee Myung Bak,"" partly for his handling in the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship. |