THE US HAS SOUNDED OUT JAPAN ON THE POSSIBILITY OF SENDING A DESTROYER...

World | April 19, 2002, Friday // 00:00

The US has sounded out Japan on the possibility of sending a destroyer to support a military offensive against Iraq, newspaper reports say. The informal request was made during a meeting of US and Japanese officials, said the Asahi newspaper, which quoted several unnamed government sources. The paper added, however, that the Japanese government's position was that dispatching the hi-tech destroyer to the Arabian Sea would be "politically difficult".

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