Kono, Pompeo affirm cooperation for U.S.-N. Korean summit

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday affirmed cooperation between their two countries and South Korea in the run-up to a U.S.-North Korean summit, Kono said following their talks in Amman.They also agreed to maintain maximum pressure on North Korea to propel the country into abandoning its nuclear and missile developments, Kono said."In order to extract concrete actions from North Korea following its summit with the United States, Japan, the United States and South Korea will closely cooperate with each other," the Japanese foreign minister t…READ FULL ARTICLE