Japan’s prime minister warned Thursday that North Korea’s offer of denuclearisation talks with the United States could be a ploy to play for time and stressed the need for Pyongyang to take “concrete” steps. In his first public comments since an apparent diplomatic breakthrough between North and South
Japan’s prime minister warned Thursday that North Korea’s offer of denuclearisation talks with the United States could be a ploy to play for time and stressed the need for Pyongyang to take “concrete” steps.
In his first public comments since an apparent diplomatic breakthrough between North and South Korea, Shinzo Abe said that talking for the sake of talking was “meaningless.”
“I’ve repeatedly said that we have to create a situation of putting maximum pressure on North Korea so that the North wants to have talks with us,” Abe told MPs.
“However… it is true that the North has in the past earned time to develop nuclear capabilities and missiles” during periods of negotiation, Abe cautioned.
