FOCUS: LDP Koizumi's vow to meet "same generation" North Korea Kim in focus

The pledge by 43-year-old Shinjiro Koizumi, the youngest candidate in the running to be Japan's next prime minister, to hold talks with "same generation" North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to resolve the abduction issue has garnered widespread attention.Japan and North Korea have no diplomatic relations, but Koizumi's father, Junichiro Koizumi, was the first Japanese prime minister to visit Pyongyang and secured the return of five people abducted by North Korea in the late 1970s.If Shinjiro Koizumi wins the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election scheduled for Sept. 27, he would becom…READ FULL ARTICLE