Trump promises Japan abduction issue will be raised "100%": Abe

U.S. President Donald Trump has promised that the issue of North Korea's past abductions of Japanese nationals will be raised "100 percent" in his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday after speaking on the phone with Trump.As the United States stepped up last-minute preparations for the much anticipated U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore on Tuesday, Abe and Trump reaffirmed their basic policy on North Korea.Trump "guaranteed 100 percent" that the abduction issue will be raised, Abe told a gathering in Tokyo after the phone call.The prime mini…READ FULL ARTICLE