Kishida’s Aim for U.S. Visit: A Summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un

Ahead of his official visit to the United States, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida revealed that he is making high-level efforts to arrange a summit with the Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim ... Read More

How Likely Is a Japan-North Korea Summit?

Unless Japan can truly offer progress on Pyongyang’s vital concerns, a bilateral summit is unlikely to materialize. Read More

Explainer: Why is Japan seeking a summit with nuclear-armed North Korea?

A month later, Kim Yo Jong issued another statement saying North Korea had no interest in a summit with Japan and would reject any talks, according to KCNA. Kim accused Tokyo of "clinging to the ... Read More

Kishida makes 'high-level approaches' for a summit with North's Kim

Kishida also noted that North Korea ... Biden at the White House on Wednesday, followed by a speech to the U.S. Congress and a trilateral summit between the U.S., Japan and the Philippines on Thursday ... Read More

Japan’s Kishida warns world at ‘historic turning point’ as he touts US alliance ahead of Biden summit

The Kishida-Biden summit has been characterized by Washington as a historic opportunity for the two countries to modernize their alliance as both eye regional threats from North Korea’s weapons ... Read More

North Korea sends a delegation to Iran in a growing effort to break its diplomatic isolation

A high-level North Korean economic delegation was on its way to Iran for what would be the two countries’ first known talks since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

In pictures: The historic Korean summit

History was made Friday when Kim Jong Un became the first North Korean leader to cross into ... into the southern side together. Friday’s summit culminated with a declaration that the two ... Read More

US, Japan to make 'historic' announcements at summit, including on defense and AI: Official

When President Joe Biden hosts Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House ... David for the historic trilateral summit last August with the U.S., Japan, and South Korea. Read More

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Exclusive interview with White House's Jake Sullivan

And we believe that the United States and Japan, as two of the world's leading democracies, as two of the world's largest economies, as two of the world's most powerful techno — technological ... Read More

White House hosts higher education leadership summit at UCB for AAPI-NHPI

A daylong conference was held on Tuesday at UC Berkeley hosted by the White House. The Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Leadership Summit was standing room only with over 600 ... Read More

Why is Japan seeking a summit with nuclear-armed North Korea?

Five returned to Japan in 2002 following previous summit talks, but 12 still remain unaccounted for. North Korea has said the issue is settled. It has previously said that the unaccounted Japanese ... Read More