Japan, Allies on 'Team Samurai' Anti-WMD Sea Drill
Reuters via Yahoo! News / Oct 26
Ships from Japan, the United States, Australia and France on Tuesday began Asia's first naval exercise to clamp down on weapons of mass destruction, a drill that communist North Korea has called hostile and provocative.....
...The drill, dubbed "Team Samurai," is the 12th in the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative but the first to be held in the backyard of North Korea, a clear focus of the exercise....
..."The only people who have anything to worry about from PSI [anti-proliferation initiative] are proliferators," Bolton, U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control, told reporters as the Izu, a Japanese Coast Guard patrol vessel, set off under cloudy skies.