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book by Anchor    Bolton also tells about the end of the Korean Peninsula, which was discussed two years ago before the North American summit in Singapore and was not completed. At the time, the Japanese Prime Minister Abe's visit to President Trump just before the talks convinced him not to yield to North Korea.

This is from Tokyo correspondent Yoo Sung-jae.

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On June 7, 2018, Prime Minister Abe visited the White House just before attending the G7 Summit in Canada to meet President Trump.

At the time, Bolton's White House aide wrote in a book that Prime Minister Abe had repeatedly asked the United States not to yield to North Korea. 

"North Korean powers are'survivors', and after evaluating that they are very rough, worn and worn out politicians who have risked their lives to defend the system, "if you think this meeting is like a normal deal, North Korea will go back to the way it was." Is emphasized.

Four days before meeting with Prime Minister Abe, President Trump met with North Korea's Vice-Chairman Young-Cheol Kim and commented on the declaration of the end of the Korean Peninsula.

[Trump/President of the United States: You can also declare war. (With Vice Chairman Kim Young-cheol) discussed ways to end the longest-running war in the world.]

Bolton, who was dissatisfied with this approach, said, "It was obvious that Japan would be uncomfortable with the previous declaration, but I was wondering what Yata Shotaro would like to say." Highly written.

In the end, the North American summit's joint statement did not include the end of the Korean Peninsula.

It is unclear to what extent Bolton's former aide will be true, but one can guess how Japan accepted the signs of change in the Korean Peninsula at the time and how it was trying to influence the United States.

(Video coverage: Han Chul-min, Video editing: Jang Hyun-gi)  

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