Japan-North Korea summit must tackle abduction issue, relations with China back on ‘normal track’: PM Abe
2018-09-03 10:08:32 source：The Straits Times
September 2, 2018
TOKYO (AFP, REUTERS, WASHINGTON POST) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said any summit he holds with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un must tackle abducted citizens, an issue that has bedevilled relations between the two countries for decades.
North Korea kidnapped scores of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s to help Pyongyang train its spies, a sore point that Tokyo says has has never been adequately addressed.
“In the end, I have to meet Chairman Kim Jong Un,” Abe told the Sankei Shimbun daily in an interview published on Sunday (Sept 2), adding he wished to “break mutual distrust” between the two countries.
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