Editorial

14:59 JST, February 25, 2025

More than 20 years have passed since some of the Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea were able to return to Japan with their families. The remaining abductees and their families in Japan, who are waiting for their return, are growing older.

The government must act with a sense of urgency to resolve the situation.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has met with members of the association of families of abductees and conveyed his desire to hold a Japan-North Korea summit. The prime minister also revealed that at his recent summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, he asked Trump to bring up the abduction issue if a U.S.-North Korea summit were to take place, and the U.S. president agreed to do so.

Trump is known to have raised the issue when he met with Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’........

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