Japan politician retracts ‘starve NKoreans’ call

TOKYO: A Japanese governor has retracted his call for North Koreans to be “starved to death” if Pyongyang were to target his region with atomic weapons, a local official said Thursday.

Masanori Tanimoto, the head of Ishikawa prefecture, walked back on a suggestion that food supplies to the nuclear-armed North should be cut off it were to lob a missile at a civilian atomic power plant in his region in central Japan.