Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is ready to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. TASS.
The prime minister said he looks forward to concrete progress on a high-level summit. Kishida noted that she has repeatedly expressed her desire to meet the DPRK president in person, without preconditions, to resolve the issue of abducted Japanese citizens. It should be noted that the Japanese Prime Minister, answering an enlightening question from journalists, did not give any details about the contacts between the officials of Japan and the DPRK on this issue.
Earlier, DPRK Deputy Foreign Minister Pak Song-gil, Pyongyang’s ready To a summit meeting with Japan if Tokyo stops “clinging to the past” and does not introduce discussion of the issue of abducted Japanese citizens as a condition for negotiations.
Pak Sung-gil noted that although Tokyo talks about the summit without preconditions, it actually puts the problem of solving the abduction of Japanese citizens, which, in the opinion of DPRK officials, has already been resolved as a condition.