The Japanese government has on Tuesday informed the United States that it has planned to maintain the economic sanctions against North Korea, even if Washington was considering to ease restrictive measures over the nation based over the results of N Korea-US summit.
According to Sputnik news reports, Japan source told that there was no guarantee that Pyongyang would take some effective steps in order to achieve the full denuclearization of the Korean peninsula even if the US President Donald Trump and his N Korean counterpart Kim Jong-Un reached an agreement at their second summit.
Therefore, Japan’ officials have informed the US that “it was too soon to offer economic cooperation and humanitarian assistance”, according to Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.
Moreover, Japan wanted to maintain N Korean sanctions as the negotiating card during the discussion over the issues of the abduction of Japanese nationals by Seoul in the 1970s and 1980s, the newspaper reports added.
The US state secretary Mike Pompeo has, earlier in the month, told NBC’s “Today” show that the US would not take steps to ease economic sanctions on N Korea until it will receive North Korean fulfilling its commitment of complete denuclearization.
Trump-Kim second summit is scheduled to take place in Hanoi, in Vietnam on Wednesday and Thursday. The first meeting between then had taken place last year in Singapore.