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 TOKYO (AP) - South Korea's foreign minister on Thursday said a visit by President Roh Moo-hyun to Tokyo later this year was unlikely, Japanese officials said.
Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon arrived in Tokyo late Thursday and met with his counterpart Nobutaka Machimura amid a diplomatic row over Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to a controversial war shrine earlier this month.
Machimura told reporters during a recess in the talks that Ban had said prospects for a meeting between the two leaders in Japan, due later this year, looked grim.
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