US downplays US-Japan emergency plan
The White House confirmed that the United States and Japan were working on an emergency plan for a possible crisis on the Korean peninsula but said it was a routine contingency effort. “People make plans all the time,” spokesman Tony Snow said after Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso, in Tokyo, revealed that the aim was “to protect some 20,000 Japanese residents and tens of thousands of tourists” in South Korea. Full Story