The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Japan PM hopefuls seek summit with North Korea on abduction issueTOKYO - Three of the four candidates vying to be Japan's next prime minister said Monday that summit talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are necessary to resolve the long-standing issue of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang decades ago.Former foreign ministers Taro Kono and Fumio Kishida and former internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi expressed the view in a forum, while former gender equality minister Seiko Noda stressed the n…READ FULL ARTICLE