Yoshihide Suga maintains that he was involved behind the scenes on big foreign policy issues and in building relationships with foreign leaders.
Japan’s new prime minister, stepping from the shadows of his longtime supporting role, said on Saturday in his debut at the U.N. General Assembly that he’s willing to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un without any conditions.
The offer comes as Yoshihide Suga — only days into his tenure — tries to do what his predecessor and former boss, Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, couldn’t- resolve the decades-old issue of North Korea’s abductions of Japanese citizens, along with the North’s growing nuclear and missile program.
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