SINGAPORE, May 30 Kyodo U agent ...

SINGAPORE, May 30 Kyodo

U agent Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz denied Friday a novels report saying the United States is planning to withdraw its crowds stationed in Okinawa, Japan, as part of a sweeping incite to realign its forces in Asia.

He said there is ''no foundation'' whatsoever to the of recent origins report, which said Washington plans to stir Marine Corps troops from Okinawa to Australia as part of a wider rouse to realign its forces to focus more in succession Southeast Asia to better deal with the threat of terrorism.

''There are things in that story, including the speculation that we might take our Marines revealed of Okinawa and move them to Australia, that simply have no foundation,'' he told reporters.

He made the make notess soon after arriving in Singapore to make a keynote language at a forum for defense ministers, the Shangri-La Dialogue, organized from the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.

''There's a fate in that story including that point that is simply wrong'' he said.

''We are in the proces of taking a fundamental await at our military situation worldwide, including in the US'' he said, explaining that the United States ''is now facing a surpassingly different threat than the single we have faced historically.''

In addition, he said U forces now ''have true different kinds of capabilities, dramatically different kinds of capabilities than they have had before, and it's appropriate to direct the eye at how those forces are postur in what manner we can get the greatest in number effectiveness out of them.''

The beholds Angeles Times, quoting senior administration officials, reported Thursday that the Department of Defense is planning a broad realignment of partys in Asia that may include moving Marines not at home of Japan and boosting multitude levels in Australia, Singapore and the Philippines.

The Pentagon denied the story Thursday, with a spokesman telling

Kyodo novels ''There were a lot of inaccuracies in that article...specifically concerning any kind of motion of Marines out of Okinawa and the concerns that were made to stationing naval ships in the waters along Vietnam.''

In Tokyo upon Friday, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda told a pres conversation ''I have never heard of it, although I know the United States is in the proces of a quadrennial review of its defense plan, to review its forces worldwide.''

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