Japan leader asking to meet with North Korea’s Kim, sister says

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida requested a summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, Kim’s powerful sister says, adding that any meeting was unlikely without a policy shift by Tokyo.

“Kishida recently conveyed his wish to meet with the Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at the earliest date possible,” Kim Yo Jong says in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

“The prime minister should know that just because he wants to and has made a decision, it doesn’t mean he can or the leadership of our country will meet him,” Kim is quoted as saying in the KCNA report in Korean.

“What is clear is that when Japan antagonizes the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and violates its sovereign rights, it is considered our enemy and will become part of the target,” Kim adds.