FOUR COUNTRIES' COAST GUARD CHIEFS MEET IN TOKYO, 2000-12-21 (photo)

Four coast guard chiefs from (L-R) South Korea, Japan, Russia and the United States shake hands at the end of a news conference, winding up the a meeting between them in Tokyo December 21, 2000. During the two-day meeting the coast guard chiefs discussed how to crack down on the smuggling of drugs and guns and piracy in the northwestern Pacific. China was invited to this meeting but cancelled before it began. L-R;Lee Gyu-sik, Commissioner of South Korean National Maritime Police Agency, Shogo Arai, Commandant of Japan's Coast Guard, General Totskii Konstantin, Commandant of Russian Federal Border Service, and Admiral James Loy, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. KM/PB