Japan's Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera prepares to speak at the IISS Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore June 2, 2018. REUTERS/Edgar Su
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Japan's Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera said on Saturday it was important not to reward North Korea for only agreeing to dialogue and it must take concrete action to dismantle all of its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.
His South Korean counterpart urged support for dialogue to help North Korea join the international community, saying its leader Kim Jong Un must be given the benefit of the doubt.
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