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Japanese PM requests summit with Kim Jong-un, says North Korea

Source: AFP/KCNA via KNS/AFP/Getty

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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