In addition, Secretary of State Blinken said that the American side will provide Japan with all possible support in resolving the problem of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean intelligence.
According to TASS, on Tuesday before the start of talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who is on an official visit to Tokyo, promised that the United States and Japan would continue close cooperation on the denuclearization of the DPRK.
“The United States and Japan will continue to cooperate to denuclearize North Korea”, – he stressed.
Motegi, in turn, fully supported the corresponding position of his American counterpart. Blinken also promised that the American side will provide Japan with all possible support in solving the problem of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean intelligence.
The topic of the kidnapping of Japanese by the DPRK intelligence services is one of the most painful in relations between the two countries, which do not maintain official diplomatic ties. In 2002, Pyongyang for the first time admitted that only 13 Japanese citizens had been kidnapped and allowed five of them to return to their homeland. The rest were declared dead, and the remains were sent to their relatives, the authenticity of which could not be confirmed. In May 2014, the governments of Japan and the DPRK agreed to conduct a new investigation into the abductions of Japanese citizens, but the commission in charge of this was subsequently disbanded at the initiative of Pyongyang.