WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush and new Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda tried to shore up their countries' alliance on Friday, confronting concerns about North Korea and Afghanistan that have frayed relations.
In Fukuda's first White House visit since taking office, Bush vowed the United States would not forget Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago as Washington presses Pyongyang to follow through on its nuclear disarmament pledge.
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