Japan sends message on a summit with North Korea
(VOVWORLD) - The Japanese government sent messages to Pyongyang over various channels expressing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s desire to hold a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday.
Japan’s then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and late North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Il at a Japan-North Korea summit in 2004 (Photo: New Focus International)
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The message called on the North Koreans to agree to a summit to discuss implementation of the Pyongyang Declaration signed in 2002 as a matter of the North’s own interest. The Japanese government also proposed discussing the issue of abducted Japanese nationals and North Korea’s nuclear and missile development programs.
Japan plans to have a summit with North Korea while the inter-Korean summit will take place in late April and a US – North Korea summit scheduled to be held in May.