Japan Urges North Korea to Rejoin Disarmament Talks By JAMES BROOKE and DAVID E. SANGER Published: February 12, 2005 TOKYO, Feb. 11 - The day after North Korea declared that it possessed nuclear weapons, Japan's prime minister urged the North to re-engage in disarmament talks. He spoke as the clock was running down toward a new law that will put economic pressure on North Korea by barring most of its ships from Japanese ports starting March 1. In Washington, Vice President Dick Cheney met South Korea's foreign minister on Friday and pressed him not to reward the North by pursuing...