PM NAKASONE SPEECH AT JAPAN NATIONAL PRESS CLUB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00363R000100010011-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2008
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: January 13, 1983
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT: PM NAKASONE 'SPEECH AT JAPAth NATIONAL
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1. (C) SUMMARY* AT JANUARY 13 SPEECH TO JAPAN NATIONAL
PRESS CLUB, PRIME MINISTER NAKASONE REVIE6ED DOMESTIC
COf'FIDENTIAL
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POLITICAL (DEVELOPMENTS SINCE HE ASSUMED CFFICE,EXPRES$ED
HIGH ATISFACTION OVER HIS RECENT TRIP TO THE ROK, OUT
LINED MAJOR ITEmS HE PLANS TO DISCUSS WITH PRESIDENT
REAGA ' AT UPCOMING WASHINGTON MEETINGS,, ,AND STRESSED
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RELAXED AND IN GOOD FORM AS HE DESCRIBED WITH SOME
SAT1SFACTIOiv THE ACTIVE ROLE HE HAS PLAYED OVER PAST
SIX WIEEKS IN JAPAN' S DOMESTI A1,1N0 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.
END SUMMARY*
a. (U) NAKASONE CABINET: NAKASOHE BRIEFLY REVIEWED
POLITICAL DEVELOPMEWTS OVER THE PAST SIX WEEKS, FRCi4
i.THE LDP PRIMARY THROUGH CABINET FORMATIUr AND SUBSE-
? GUE1 T ACTIONS ON BUDGET, IPA 'rAGE.FREEZE, DEFENSE,
Arai T i~. WC E FRICT'IUN PROBLEMS. HE DEFENDED HIS VIEVNS
ON CC STITUTIOW_AND POLITICAL ETHICS, AND SAID IT
WAS HIS OBLIGATION AS PM TO SPEAK FRANKLY EVEN IF
THIS AROUSED CRITICISM.
3. (U) ROK TRIP: NAKASONE SAID ROK VISIT. WAS A ,MOVING
EXPERIENCE AND HE DEEPLY APPRECIATED PRESIDENT CHUN''S
lELGCiY,.E. CONTRARY TO SOME PRESS REPONTS,,.THERE
HAs~ BEEN 0 DISCUSSIUN.OF A THREE-WAY UNITED STATES,
JAPANN, ROK SECURITY RELATIONSHIP, AT SAME TIME
STABILITY OF THE KOREAN PENINSULA =">A Ai' ILIPORTANT FACTOR
IN THE. PEACE AND STABILITY OF ASIA, INCLUDING JAPAN.
4. (U) US-JAPAN RELATIONS; NAKASONE SAID THAT CRITICIAM
OF JAPAN BY THE US CONGRESS HAD TREMENDOUS ,IMPACT ON US.
OPINION, AID THAT COMMUNICATION' BETWEEN' THE AMERICAN
y". CO11?GkESS AtuD THE JAPANESE DIET SHOULD BE I ePROVED.
IT AAS NECESSARY To HAVE MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING; ONE
EXAMPLE WAS THE.DEFENSE BUDGET, WHERE.,THE: b,5 PERCENT
INCREASE WAS A VERY CAREFULLY CALCULATED BALANCE WHICH,
RECOGNIZED THE SEVERE BUDGET CONSTRAINTS IN JAPAN: Y WILE
AT THE 6A NE TIME GOING AS FAR AS POSSIBLE. TO MEET U.S.
CL,NLE.R -i4a. PM SAID HE WOULD EXPLAIP THIS PERSONALLY TO
PRESIOENT REAGAN. kAKASONE SAID THE QUESTION OF
OEFEt.S6 TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER HAD t EEi~r UNDER DISCUSSION
FOh SC=4E TIt''E. AND. SHOULD BE RESJLVEG. HE, I AS iIORKING
IN THIS DIRECTION. PM REVIEWED RECENT GOJ ACTIONS ON
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