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U.S. Aegis destroyer to call at Nagasaki
Kyodo) _ The USS Mustin, a U.S. Navy destroyer equipped with the most advanced Aegis missile guidance system, will make a call at Nagasaki Port for five days from March 1, the Nagasaki prefectural government said Monday. The U.S. Navy said the call by the 9,238-ton warship that is deployed at a base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, is aimed at promoting friendship. Or is someone expecting things to heat up in the Axis of Evil around that date? Wishful thinking, I'm sure. The Nagasaki prefectural and city governments have requested Japan's Foreign Ministry and the United States to keep from making the port call as "citizens of a prefecture that suffered from atomic bombing hold complex feelings," but the requests were rejected, they said. "The port call stirs concerns among atomic-bomb victims and citizens of the bomb site, and we absolutely will not tolerate it," said Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito in a released statement. The scheduled port call at Nagasaki is the first by a U.S. fleet since last February.
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