North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a ¡°message of sympathy¡± to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida following the devastating earthquake in Ishikawa Prefecture earlier this week that has left 100 people dead and more than 200 missing.
The North¡¯s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a short dispatch Saturday that Kim had ¡°expressed his deep sympathy and condolences to the prime minister and, through him, to the bereaved families and victims¡± a day earlier.
In the extremely rare communication between the two countries¡¯ leaders ¡ª Kim¡¯s first to Kishida ¡ª the North Korean strongman said he ¡°sincerely hoped that the people in the affected areas would ... restore their stable life at the earliest date possible.¡±
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