Koizumi NK Visit "Ceremony"

Bloomberg: "Japan's biggest opposition party called Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's one-day visit to North Korea a ``failure'' and an attempt to deflect attention from questions over his pension fund contributions.

Koizumi's visit yesterday was aimed at paving the way for talks to end North Korea's nuclear program. He returned with five of the eight known relatives of Japanese abducted by the communist nation in the 1980s, while his visit was overshadowed by a New York Times report that said evidence was found North Korea exported nuclear materials to Libya."