Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida once again expressed his willingness to hold a summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to resolve the abduction issue of Japanese nationals.
In a situation where the schedule for the Korea-China-Japan summit within the year is unclear, it is not easy to induce China to play a role in North Korea, so a North Korea-Japan summit seems unlikely.
This is a report from correspondent Kim Se-ho from Tokyo.
[기자]
Five days after North Korea launched a military reconnaissance satellite.
Prime Minister Kishida expressed his willingness to hold an early summit with North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un to resolve the issue of Japanese abductees.
[기시다 후미오 / 일본 총리 : 조건을 달지 않고, 김정은 위원장과 직접 마주할 결의가 있다는 말씀을 드리는 만큼, 전력을 다해 행동하고 있습니다.]
He emphasized that now is the time to boldly change the status quo and to move independently to build relationships between the leaders of North Korea and Japan.
Prime Minister Kishida has previously stated several times that he is working on high-level consultations under the Prime Minister’s direct control to make the North Korea-Japan summit a reality.
[마쓰노 관방장관 / 일본 총리 : 여러 경로를 통해 다양한 활동을 이어가고 있고, 그러한 활동을 한층 더 강화하고 있습니다.]
In relation to this, Japan’s Asahi Shimbun reported last September that North Korean and Japanese officials secretly contacted each other in March and May of this year.
In contrast to the stern response to North Korea’s nuclear and missile response, the country is continuing its conciliatory stance in resolving the issue of its citizens abducted by North Korea.
In order for Japan to get what it wants, it needs the cooperation of China, which has great influence on North Korea, but in this meeting between the foreign ministers of Korea, China and Japan, China barely mentioned the North Korean nuclear issue and took a passive approach.
The Japanese media assessed that there was a further regression in cooperation with North Korea compared to the meeting between the foreign ministers of Korea, China and Japan four years ago.
In addition, there are predictions that a summit within the year will be difficult as no agreement was reached on the timing of the trilateral summit at this meeting of the foreign ministers of Korea, China and Japan.
[납북자 문제와 북 핵·미사일 대응이라는 두 마리 토끼를 어떻게 잡을지를 놓고, 일본 정부의 대북 외교력이 어떤 성적을 낼 수 있을지 주목됩니다.
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2023-11-27 12:34:00
