Japanese PM requests summit with Kim Jong-un, says North Korea
by Alisha Rahaman Sarkar
Mar 25, 2024
3 minutes
North Korea says Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida has requested to meet Kim Jong-un “as soon as possible” in what would be the first summit between the two countries’ leaders in about two decades.
Kim Yo-jong, a senior North Korean official and the influential sister of the hermit kingdom’s leader, said the meeting would depend on Japan, which occupied the Korean peninsula from 1910-45, making “practical political decisions”.
That appears to be a reference to the issue of Japanese citizens kidnapped
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