Voters say N. Korean threat affected how they vote in Japan election

Voters, including teens eligible to vote for the first time, cast ballots in Sunday's lower house election amid growing fears about North Korea's missile and nuclear programs.In Tokyo, many indicated they voted for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, filled with anxiety that recently established parties, including Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike's Party of Hope, may be unable to handle the North Korean threat."We saw the Democratic Party of Japan's poor handling of the nuclear accident" at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011, said 37-year-old Daisuke Kai, citin…READ FULL ARTICLE