North Korea rejected any meeting with Japan/Tokyo should not interfere in our affairs
North Korea's official news agency reported that Pyongyang has no desire to talk with Japan.
According to ISNA, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that he wants to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un without any conditions and personally supervise the efforts to hold the first such meeting between the leaders of the two countries after 20 years, which will be aimed at reducing tensions. has it.
According to Reuters news agency, however, North Korean Foreign Minister Cho Sun Hui said that the country has no desire for such a meeting with Japan and rejects any negotiations.
He continued, Pyongyang has no desire to help solve the problem of abducted Japanese. North Korea reacts harshly to any interference by Tokyo in its sovereignty.
North Korea's foreign minister also said, referring to the Japanese prime minister: “I cannot understand how he insists on a problem that he cannot solve in this way.”
In 2002, Pyongyang confirmed the abduction of 13 Japanese citizens decades earlier. Five of the men and their families were later reunited in Japan and told that the others had died.
North Korea's official news agency also reported that the country's ambassador to China also said that no meeting will be held at any level with Tokyo.
These statements by North Korean officials came while Kim Yo-jong, the sister of the country's leader, had previously said that she would welcome talks only if Japan was ready to start anew without “returning to the past”.
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source: ISNA
