Areas Aquaculture: Abe Putin and Test Sunday

areas aquaculture: Abe and Putin met for the third time this year and 19th overall, at a time of heightened tensions over North Korea, which conducted its sixth nuclear test Sunday following recent missile launches in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions, according to The Japan Times. We had deep exchanges over the imminent threat posed by North Korea. Abe and Putin also agreed in talks on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in the Russian Far East city of Vladivostok to conduct joint economic activities on disputed islands off Hokkaido in five areas aquaculture, greenhouse farming, tourism, wind power and waste reduction. ; Tokyo sees the initiative as paving the way toward resolving the long-standing territorial dispute over the islands and signing of a post-World War II peace treaty, while Russia hopes to attract investments to the underdeveloped region. We agreed that the nuclear test is a threat to the Korean Peninsula and the region and is a challenge to a nonproliferation regime, Abe told a joint news conference. Putin, while condemning North Korea's missile and nuclear development as posing a threat to international and regional peace and safety, said, There are only political and diplomatic means to resolve the nuclear problem on the Korean Peninsula. We will cooperate closely. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.