Foreign Minister Taro Kono (Mainichi) Foreign Minister Taro Kono will tell International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano at a planned July 4 meeting in Vienna that Japan is ready to allow the use of a 350 million yen nonproliferation fund Tokyo has contributed to the nuclear watchdog for inspections related to the denuclearization…
Delegate to UN conference on disarmament says Tokyo ought ‘to refrain from poking into others’ business.’ A North Korean diplomat to the United Nations advised Japan on Tuesday not to meddle in the process of denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. The remarks by councillor Ju Yong-chol came in a speech delivered on the first day…
Michael Heng says while Beijing has good reason to be wary of American hegemony in the region, it must realise that a US military withdrawal would encourage unwanted developments – nuclear-armed neighbours in a unified Korea and Japan. The Kim-Trump summit in Singapore has reduced the danger of armed conflict on the Korean peninsula. It is good for peace…
The proposed talks in Beijing in December would be the second such summit this year, and could represent Beijing’s attempt to hold sway in the wake of the Trump-Kim meeting. China has sounded out Japan and South Korea to hold a trilateral summit again in December in Beijing, hoping to further ramp up cooperation to…
TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday (June 16) called on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to jointly overcome their mutual distrust, as he confirmed ongoing efforts to arrange a Japan-North Korea summit. In a television interview, Mr Abe said his government has contacted the North Korean side “through various channels”…
(CNN)Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un are the unlikeliest of statesmen, but fate has thrown the US President and the North Korean tyrant an opportunity granted to few historic figures — together they can change the world. Their summit in Singapore on Tuesday — which will begin with a one-on-one meeting, alongside translators — represents an opening…
President Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan at the White House on June 7. Japan could be left vulnerable depending on the substance of Mr. Trump’s meeting with North Korea about denuclearization.CreditAndrew Harnik/Associated Press TOKYO — Even if Tuesday’s meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, goes well, Japan stands…
President Trump shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on Thursday. Nicholas Kamm / AFP/Getty Images At an Oval Office photo op with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Thursday, President Trump said he doesn’t “have to prepare much” for the upcoming summit with…
The historic summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is back on. “We’ll be meeting on June 12 in Singapore,” the president confirmed to reporters after hosting an hour-long meeting with a top North Korean official in the Oval Office. Following the announcement, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders announced on Twitter on June 5…
WASHINGTON (AP) – After a week of hard-nosed negotiation, diplomatic gamesmanship and no shortage of theatrics, President Donald Trump has announced that the historic nuclear-weapons summit he had canceled with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is back on. The June 12 meeting in Singapore, the first between heads of the technically still-warring nations, is meant…