Sanae Takaichi meets the families of North Korean kidnapping victims for the first time and reveals that she has asked Trump to facilitate a Japan-North Korea summit

On the morning of October 6, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met for the first time with the families of the victims of the North Korean abduction of Japanese citizens. She revealed that she had recently made a request to US President Trump. If Trump holds a US-North Korea summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, she hopes that Trump can urge Kim Jong-un to agree to hold a Japan-North Korea summit.

On the morning of the 6th, Sanae Takaichi met with the families of the kidnapping victims who visited the United States last month, as well as cadres of the cross-party alliance of congressmen, and said: "The kidnapping issue is a serious humanitarian issue. I will do my best until the day when the victims set foot on the soil of the motherland as soon as possible."

Takaichi said that since he took office as Prime Minister, he has cooperated with the Chief Cabinet Secretary and promoted through various channels, and is determined to open a breakthrough in the problem and solve the long-unsolved kidnapping case during his term.

According to Katsunobu Kato, the acting president of the cross-party parliamentary alliance who accompanied the family members and former finance minister of the Liberal Democratic Party, Takaichi took the initiative to mention during the meeting that he had made a request to the United States and hoped to use the opportunity of the U.S.-North Korea leaders’ talks to promote dialogue between Japan and North Korea, indicating that the new government has made the kidnapping issue a diplomatic priority.