Japanese Prime Minister and Kim Jong-un will meet in Vladivostok

The Japanese authorities plan to organize a meeting of the Prime Minister of the country Shinzo Abe and the head of North Korea Kim Jong-un in Vladivostok. According to the source in the Japanese government, they want to hold a meeting in September at the Eastern Economic Forum, where the North Korean leader has already been invited.

Japanese Prime Minister Abe, in turn, regularly visits the forum in the Far East of Russia. The sources explain the need for the meeting by the fact that this year, Japan has been fully preparing for the first Japanese-Several Korean summit since 2004 in an attempt to resolve the issue with Japanese citizens stolen by Pyongyang in the 1970s and 1980s, " rain writes with reference to Kyodo .

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On Tuesday, at negotiations with American President Donald Trump in Singapore, Kim Jong-un announced his readiness to meet with the Japanese Prime Minister. At the meeting, Trump said Kim Jong Yun that Japan is ready to economically support North Korea only after the DPRK stops nuclear and missile programs and resolve the problem of stolen citizens of Japan.

Earlier, the previous leader of North Korea DPRK Kim Jong Ir admitted that in 1977-1983. North Korea abducted more than ten Japanese to teach the DPRK scouts. Eight of them, according to Kim Jong Ira, died: Japan gave out the remains of one of them, but DNA analysis showed that the body belonged to another person.