North Korea says Japan's prime minister offered to meet with leader Kim Jong Un soon

This photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits canteen during his visit to the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards 105th Tank Division, in North Korea on March 24, 2024. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified.

She said there will be no breakthrough in North Korea-Japan relations as long as Kishida’s government is engrossed in the abduction issue and interferes in the North’s “exercise of our sovereign right," apparently referring to the North’s weapons testing activities. In February, Kim Yo Jong issued a similar statement on bilateral ties, saying North Korea was open to improving relationships with Japan and even inviting Kishida to Pyongyang. But she said those would be possible only if Tokyo stops taking issue with North Korea's legitimate right to self-defense and the abduction issue.

North Korea and Japan don’t have diplomatic ties, and their relations have been overshadowed by North Korea’s nuclear program, the abduction issue and Japan’s 1910-45 colonization of the Korean Peninsula. Japan's colonial wrongdoing is a source of on-again, off-again history wrangling between Tokyo and Seoul, as well.

North Korea and Japan had been scheduled to play a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday in Pyongyang, but FIFA, soccer’s governing body, said Saturday it canceled the match. North Korea recently said it couldn’t host Japan and requested a neutral venue “due to unavoidable circumstances,” according to the Asian Football Confederation.

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