Shinzo Abe to hold phone talks with Xi Jinping over N. Korea on Fri.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is planning to hold telephone talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday, Japanese government sources said Thursday.The talks are expected to focus mainly on North Korea before its leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump meet in the coming weeks in the first-ever U.S.-North Korean summit, the sources said.Abe is also likely to seek support from Beijing in resolving the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang in the 1970s and 1980s, the sources said.The president of China, a major ally of the North, met with Kim in Beijing in March, befor…READ FULL ARTICLE