East Asia Summit Prospects demanding dialogue with North Korea in chairman's statement October 23, 4:18
At the East Asia Summit, where Japan also participates and discusses regional security, etc., countries continue to discuss North Korea with the chairman's statement issued on the final day, while North America's talks over the denuclearization of North Korea are stagnant And is strongly expected to resume.
The East Asia Summit will be held in the suburbs of Bangkok, Thailand in early next month with the participation of 10 ASEAN countries in the Southeast Asian countries, Japan, the United States and China.
According to the chairman's statement obtained by NHK, the countries over the situation of North Korea “welcome the resumption of the talks about the US-North Korea practitioners talks held in Sweden this month. “We ask all concerned to work towards peace, stability and denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, and continue or resume discussions”.
Further, the draft statement strongly urges North Korea to take action toward denuclearization, stating that North Korea ’s commitment to complete the denuclearization and to pledge to restrain further nuclear and missile experiments. It is.
This month, the United States showed the idea of promptly reconsidering in response to the US-North American practitioner talks, but North Korea ’s Kim Jong-un, the chairman of the Korean Labor Party, Is criticized by name and is shaking. For this reason, it is expected that each country will strongly appeal to North Korea the importance of dialogue in the chairman's statement.