Question mark over marines relocation from Okinawa

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Updated October 22, 2009 20:20:47

The United States' Defence Secretary Robert Gates has threatened to stop the move of US marines from Okinawa in Japan to the US Pacific territory of Guam. One of the first actions of Japan's new government was to signal a proposed change to the details of a 2006 agreement with the US to relocate the American marines base to Guam, and change the location in Okinawa of its marine airbase. But during a visit to Japan earlier this week Defence Secretary Gates said if the plan is changed, the whole deal is off... including the relocation of marines to Guam.

Presenter: Campbell Cooney
Speaker: Professor Richard Tanter, Japan analyst, Nautilus Institute

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