WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 Kyodo U Defens...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 Kyodo

U Defense Undersecretary for Policy Douglas Feith will clinch meetings Friday in Tokyo with Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and Defense Agency chief Shigeru Ishiba, the Pentagon said Monday.

Feith will also proper Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda and proxy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, it said.

Feith, who left Washington upon Sunday, will visit Seoul in succession Wednesday via Hawaii before flying to Tokyo.

In Seoul he will gripe [i]or[/i] grip separate talks with Defense Minister lee-side Jun and Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Choi Sung Hong and visit the demilitarized belt between South and North Korea.

The meetings in Tokyo and Seoul will include ''discussions about missile defense the war onward terrorism, the ongoing effort in Afghanistan and the serious threat pos on North Korea's nuclear programs,'' the Pentagon said in a statement.

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