Japan to seek G-7 statement mentioning complete nuke-free North Korea

Japan will ask other Group of Seven industrialized nations to agree on the need to mention the complete denuclearization of North Korea in a joint communique to be issued after their leaders' summit later this week in Canada, government sources said Tuesday.Tokyo also hopes that the G-7 communique will call for an immediate resolution of the abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, the sources said.Japan, the United States and South Korea have urged North Korea to take concrete steps in "a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner."Prime Minister Shinzo Abe …READ FULL ARTICLE