Japan seeks meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Kim Jong Un: Report

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have communicated several times over the past few months and are seeking to schedule a meeting between the two later this year, a new report says.

One option on the table is for Abe to travel to Pyongyang in August, but another possibility is for Abe and Kim to meet during the Eastern Economic Forum in September if Kim decided to attend, according to the Yomiuri newspaper. The report comes after a Tuesday summit

between the U.S. and North Korea, where President Trump and Kim signed a joint statement agreeing to pursue a “stable peace” on the peninsula.At a press conference after Kim had left Singapore, Trump said North Korea agreed to give up its nuclear arms. Trump also claimed he was confident that the rogue regime would pursue complete denuclearization and that the process would be underway in the near future.

Trump also decided that U.S.-South Korean military exercises would be suspended following the meeting, but Japan’s defense minister has claimed the exercises were “vital” to national security in East Asia. Two missiles were fired over Japan in 2017 by North Korea as the rogue regime continued to develop its nuclear weapons program.

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