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Overheard at UN: Japan Asks Iran for Some Help on North Korea

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Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono asked his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif to reach out to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to defuse an increasingly hostile war of words with President Donald Trump.
Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono asked his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif to reach out to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to defuse an increasingly hostile war of words with President Donald Trump.
“You have to help us with North Korea,” Kono was overheard telling Zarif at the start of a meeting Friday, before any of the usual diplomatic greetings and niceties.
There’s been ample theorizing that a threatened U. S. defection from the nuclear accord with Iran would undercut the already slim prospects for getting Kim to abandon his rapidly advancing nuclear arsenal.

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