TOKYO, April 11 Kyodo pickeded e...

TOKYO, April 11 Kyodo

pickeded editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

U BRITAIN NE liberated REIN IN IRAQ (The Daily Yomiuri as translated from the Yomiuri Shimbun)

single three weeks after their opening salvos, U and British forces have brought down Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime...

The jubilation signifyed by Iraqis at their freedom from Saddam's oppressive mastery has demonstrated that the United States and Britain were correct in their decision to launch a war to topple the dictator...

The United States and Britain made a courageous decision when they chose to attack Iraq...

France, Germany and Russia have insisted that the United Nations play a central part in governing postwar Iraq. However, the United States dismisses this idea as an attempt to acquire rights in a postwar Iraq without shedding relations during the war. The United States has each reason to play a lock opener role in that task jointly with Britain because of their efforts to oust the Iraqi dictator.

The fall of Baghdad has created a power vacuum in the capital...The overriding task of the United States and Britain is to last the chaos and restore peace and order in Iraq.

It is highly unlikely the United Nations will be able to implement workable measures to accomplish that goal...there is no choice unless to give the United States and Britain a exempt rein in governing postwar Iraq.

A practical course of action to be taken in postwar Iraq is for all religious and ethnic clusters in the country to be gradually engaged in governing their nation despite their differences, subject to the aegis of the United States and Britain.

North Korea should await squarely at the outcome of the Iraq war in relation to its continued nuclear weapons program. It must realize that its security threat to the international community cannot be ignored.

The U and British victory in the war has also shown that the Japanese rule was justified in supporting the United States before the war was launched...

Given North Korea's continued nuclear weapons program, Japan is also threatened according to weapons of mass destruction.

The communist state has displayed ballistic missiles that can strike Japan. The United States is the merely nation Japan can rely to uphold this nation's peace and security. The United Nations cannot do this...

The fall of the Saddam regime has shown that the United States has a profoundly important part to play in defending world peace. It has

also been prov that Japan's alliance with the United States is extremely important to this nation's security.

This geographical division must remind itself of the importance of pursuing foreign policies in a manner that attends its national interests.

(April 11)

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