Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, a close aide to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, called on North Korea on Thursday to move to realize an early summit to resolve the issue of the past abduction of Japanese nationals.Matsuno, the top government spokesman who has doubled as minister in charge of the abduction issue since October 2021, also said at an online U.N. symposium on the subject that Kishida is willing to talk with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "without conditions."His speech came a day after a researcher at an institute at the North Korean Foreign Ministry, through state-run …READ FULL ARTICLE
