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SEOUL, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- South Korean officials are expressing concern about how right-wing members of Japan's new Cabinet would affect six-way nuclear talks with North Korea.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi this week installed men considered ultra-nationalists in the positions of chief Cabinet secretary and foreign minister. Both men have supported tough sanctions against North Korea should the country refuse to give up its nuclear program.
North Korea is yet to comment on the changes.
"(The reshuffle) could affect the denuclearization talks," Song Min-soon, vice foreign minister and South Korea's top delegate to the nuclear talks, said in a radio interview.
"Although ultra-nationalists have entered the Cabinet, they should not lock themselves up in the past, or rather they should choose a responsible forward-looking stance," Song said. "I believe such an attitude would be helpful for Japan."
Seoul-Tokyo relations have been strained since last month when Koizumi visited the Yasukuni Shrine that honors 2.5 million Japanese war dead, including convicted Class A war criminals from World War II.
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