Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- The mayor of Sasebo, which hosts a U.S. Navy base, urged the central government Friday to swiftly dispose of low-level radioactive waste found to have been stored at the military facility, which was gathered during the U.S. forces' relief operations after the March 11 earthquake-tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan.

Sasebo Mayor Norio Tomonaga told reporters that he protested at the central government's failure to notify the city on the storage of the nuclear waste at the Navy base.