North Korea will refuse ¡°any contact and negotiations¡± with Japan in the future, the powerful sister of the nuclear-armed country¡¯s leader said Tuesday, just a day after she said Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had requested a summit with her brother, Kim Jong Un.
In a statement carried by the North¡¯s official Korean Central News Agency, Kim Yo Jong pointed to the comments by the Japanese government¡¯s top spokesman on Monday that Tokyo would never accept Pyongyang¡¯s claim that the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang in the 1970s and 1980s had already been resolved.
¡°Japan has no courage to change history, promote regional peace and stability and take the first step for the fresh DPRK-Japan relations,¡± she said, adding that a summit meeting between the two countries¡¯ leaders was therefore ¡°not a matter of concern¡± to Pyongyang.
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