Japanese PM requests summit with Kim Jong-un, says North Korea - Pyongyang sets conditions for a meeting between leaders of ...

This was supposed to be a year to celebrate the improvement of relations between South Korea and Japan. However, amid the ...

On February 20, 2025, Prime Minister Ishiba held a meeting with families of abductees and others at the Prime Minister’s ...

Koizumi, 43, the U.S.-educated heir to a prominent ... was looking forward to working with the next Japanese leader. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has faced political backlash for ...

Koizumi is close to Yoshihide Suga, the 75-year-old former prime minister whose constituency is in Kanagawa Prefecture, the same as Koizumi’s. Suga, who does not belong to any faction, intends ...

The Japanese government officially lists 17 abductees, five of whom were repatriated in 2002 after a visit to Pyongyang by then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. North Korea said in 2002 that eight of ...

On Sept. 17, 2002, then Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited Pyongyang and signed a historic declaration with late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the father of Kim Jong Un. Under the ...

The government is considering replacing the secretariat head of its office in charge of issues related to North Korea's past ...

Trump, who discussed the abduction issue with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during ... to Pyongyang by then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. "I'm determined to do my all and exhaust all ...