Addressing a press conference with Donald Trump in Tokyo, Japanese Premier Abe Shinzo said that U.S. president supported his pursuit of first-ever summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Japanese News Agency Kyodo News reported.<\/p>\n
However, no date has been set for the meeting, he added.<\/p>\n
Trump is on a for-day visit to Japan and is first state guest hosted in the era of new Japanese emperor Naruhito who took over the throne early May.<\/p>\n
\u201cJapan and the U.S. are completely on the same page in handling North Korea,\u201d Abe said.<\/p>\n
The statement comes despite the fact that Tokyo sharply reacted to Pyongyang’s firing of short-range missiles earlier in May.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters, Trump said North Korea\u2019s missile launches were not a violation of UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions.<\/p>\n
“All I know is there’ve been no nuclear tests, there’ve been no ballistic missiles going out, there’ve been no long-range missiles going out,” he added.<\/p>\n
North Korea is under severe UNSC sanctions since 2006 when it held unilateral nuclear tests.<\/p>\n
Trump said that he was not in rush to strike a deal with Kim over its denuclearization referring to “tremendous sanctions” imposed on the Communist country.<\/p>\n
The U.S. president held two summits with Kim in Singapore and Hanoi since June 2018, however, there has been no tangible move on the denuclearization of Korean peninsula.<\/p>\n
Pyongyang blamed Washington for breakdown of dialogue and demanded replacement of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for future talks.<\/p>\n
Japan has had unilateral sanctions in place against North Korea ever since Pyongyang\u2019s first nuclear arms test in 2006 which have been extended many times since then.<\/p>\n
Tokyo also blames Pyongyang for the abduction of its 17 nationals.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prime Minister of Japan Monday said that visiting U.S. president has expressed his support for initiating dialogue with North Korea, local media said on Monday. Addressing a press conference with Donald Trump in Tokyo, Japanese Premier Abe Shinzo said that U.S. president supported his pursuit of first-ever summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Japanese …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,30,80,63,103,101],"tags":[39700,77263,19845,2071,9658],"class_list":["post-63787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-only-on-nationalturk","category-politics","tag-asia-japan","tag-donald-trump","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}