Prior to this week's Japan-US summit meeting, Prime Minister Suga received an offer from a bipartisan parliamentary federation aiming to normalize diplomatic relations with North Korea to give top priority to solving the abduction issue, and said, We will work on it. "
Before the Japan-US summit meeting was held on the 16th of this week, the bipartisan "Japan-North Korea Diplomatic Relations Normalization Promotion Council" resolved a resolution, and executives such as Liberal Democratic Party Chairman Seishiro Eto and Komeito Secretary-General Ishii On the morning of the 13th, I visited the Prime Minister's Office and applied to Prime Minister Kan.
The resolution calls on the government to give top priority to resolving the abduction issue at the Japan-US summit meeting, and as a parliamentary federation, to resolve concerns with North Korea and to normalize diplomatic relations. He says he is ready to visit North Korea.
In response, Prime Minister Suga responded, "Thank you for concluding the resolution. Based on the Japan-North Korea Pyongyang Declaration, we will work hard to resolve the abduction issue by all means."
After this, Mr. Eto told reporters, "I would like this meeting to be a new kick-off for a solution."