SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister said on Tuesday (Mar 26) Pyongyang would reject "any contact or negotiations" with Japan, just a day after she said Tokyo's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had
Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attends wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Mar 2, 2019. SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister said on Tuesday Pyongyang would reject"any contact or negotiations" with Japan, just a day after she said Tokyo's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had
Kim Yo Jong - who is one of the regime's key spokespeople - said on Monday that Kishida had requested a summit with Pyongyang's leader, adding a meeting was unlikely without a policy shift by Tokyo. Kishida said on Monday that he was not aware of the earlier KCNA report, and did not directly comment on its contents, while calling top-level talks with North Korea"important".
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