U.S., Japanese Officials Agree to Move Missile Defense Cooperation to Development Stage

The United States and Japan agreed Saturday to continue cooperating on development of a missile defense system, United Press International reported (see GSN, Feb. 15).

Japanese Defense Agency Director General Yoshinori Ono and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld agreed to move bilateral efforts on missile defense from the research to the development stage, the Kyodo news agency reported (United Press International, Feb. 20).

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