From the News, Nation, Dawn, Pakistan Observer, Daily Times, Frontier Post, Nawa-i-Waqt (Urdu), Jang (Urdu) and daily Express (Urdu) newspapers                                                                            

19 July 2009

Local News
Political

• Tokyo (Agencies) Japan and the United States on Saturday agreed to continue talks on ways to boost the nuclear deterrence Washington provides to Tokyo as tensions continue with North Korea, officials said (The Frontier Post, p- 5)

• SEOUL (Agencies) The United States is ready to hold talks with North Korea if the conditions are right but will also press UN sanctions to punish Pyongyang for its nuclear and missile tests, a senior US envoy for Asia said on Saturday (Daily Times, p- A9)