Takachi Sane said she “wanted to meet Kim Jong-un” and Kim Yo-jong poured cold water: There is nothing to talk about

Japanese Prime Minister on November 8takaichi sanae While attending an event in Tokyo, he expressed that he wanted to meet North Korea’s top leaderkim jong un meeting. “I sincerely want to meet Chairman Kim Jong Un, and I have received support from US President Trump,” Sanae Takaichi said.

In March this year, at the US-Japan summit in Washington, Sanae Takaichi expressed his firm desire to realize the North Korea-Japan summit.

In response, the Minister of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Koreakim yo jong He made a statement and said that this is not an issue that Japan can achieve if it wants and is determined. If the Japanese Prime Minister wants to resolve his unilateral issues that North Korea does not recognize, the North Korean leadership has no intention of meeting him or sitting down face to face.

Kim Yo Jong also said that before the meeting of the two heads of state, Japan will first have to make up its mind to break away from its inappropriate behavior and habits. But now Japan is moving further in the opposite direction. North Korea and Japan have nothing to discuss.

Kim Yo Jong said that her personal position is that she does not want to see the Japanese Prime Minister visit Pyongyang.

As to why Gao Xi wanted to meet Kim Jong Un, Chen Yang, a young scholar from Japan and researcher at the Charhar Institute, told Hong Kong’s China News Service that for Gao Xi, the North Korea issue holds special political value. On the one hand, he has long taken a hard-line conservative stance and emphasized national sovereignty and the rights of North Korea’s abducted people. If she can induce even some of the abductees to return home through the summit, it could become a significant political achievement for her and increase her domestic support rate.

Gao Xi, on the other hand, has been in power for a year and is in urgent need of producing recognizable diplomatic results. Compared to complex issues such as China-Japan relations and Japan-Russia relations, a breakthrough on the North Korean issue is more easily packaged as a personal diplomatic achievement of the prime minister. Therefore, Gao Xi actually hopes to turn a long-standing diplomatic problem into a political success for himself.

As for the US factor, Chen Yang pointed out that although Trump has sent a signal that he is willing to meet Kim Jong-un, progress is slow and uncertain, making it difficult to finalize the summit in the short term. In this context, the United States agrees and is also happy to see Japan act as a “second-line pioneer” for the United States to provide information, explore North Korea’s trump cards, and share communication costs. But that doesn’t mean the White House directly ordered the high market to negotiate. The Takaichi regime has its own independent demands: Japan does not want to remain completely passive and wait for the United States to arrange issues on the peninsula. It hopes to gain independent diplomatic bargaining chips, strive for a greater stake within the Japan-US alliance, and prevent all North Korea-related issues from being decided by Washington.

Moreover, Chen Yang further pointed out that now is not a good time. Currently, Japan remains tough on China and Russia and North Korea and China and Russia maintain strategic coordination. Pyongyang has no reason to unilaterally pay high-level “diplomatic dividends” at this time. For North Korea, dialogue with Japan is an “option” rather than a “hard necessity”, and the initiative remains in North Korea’s hands.