Japan's Abe wants North Korea to take concrete steps toward denuclearization

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday called on North Korea to take concrete steps toward denuclearization after the country's leader Kim Jong Un expressed readiness to hold talks with the United States over the issue."It is extremely important for North Korea to take concrete steps and implement what it has said" to realize a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, Abe said in a meeting with one of the South Korean envoys who met Kim earlier this month in Pyongyang.During their talks at the prime minister's office, Abe and Suh Hoon, director of South Korea's National Intelligence Service, a…READ FULL ARTICLE