Prime Minister and LDP President Shinzo Abe received a detailed briefing from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on his meetings in North Korea. The two confirmed their shared goal of the complete, verifiable, and irreversible elimination of all of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles of all ranges. They also reconfirmed the importance of Japan-US cooperation in reaching an early resolution to the abduction problem.

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