North Korea accused the United States of torpedoing six-party talks on its nuclear program and then took aim at Japan’s new government, saying conservatives were attempting to turn Japanese society to the right and rearm the country. North Korea’s harsh denunciation of Japan at the U.N. General Assembly’s ministerial meeting came hours after Shinzo Abe’s election Tuesday as Japan’s youngest postwar prime minister. A nationalist and proponent of a robust alliance with the United States, Abe has called for a more assertive military and an overhaul of Japan’s pacifist constitution. Full Story