Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS. Japan’s relations with North Korea seen frozen in time, showing none of the movement that has been seen in Pyongyang’s negotiations with the United States or South Korea.

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“It is most likely that the [North Korea-Japan] relations would be set gloomier if the Japanese Prime Minister makes a wrong start from the beginning, as it is doing now,” the statement said.

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During this segment of an annual symposium on U.S.-Japan-South Korea trilateral relations, Asia experts and students talked about North Korea and China's influence in the region, security ...