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Japanese prime minister and one last point on the abductee issue, the trump administration has made it clear when it's touting what it says are it's accomplishments with north korea, it argues that north korea has suspended nuclear tests that it has suspended launches of missiles that that's not entirely true. and that it got american abductees returned home. that's one of the things that the trump administration applauded itself for. we have to recall that one of those people was otto warmbier that was returned in a vegetative state and subsequently died. that's been a difficult thing for the...

President trump is able to reach some kind of diplomatic solution with pyeongyang, tokyo is making it clear that it wants the abductee issue to be somewhere in that potential scenario. >> let's bring in pamela brown. pam, i would imagine that this particular issue is something that would resinate with donald trump given that he has advocated and secured the release of the remains of u.s. soldiers that died in korea. this is something that he can relate to. >> that's absolutely right and he said that not long agatha this issue has bp very much on his mind he actually promised to bring home the ...

That chairman kim gets and it willing to do what it takes to get the second enormous -- >> to do this in front of the prime minister. trump will do anything to make a deal land avoid short range ballistic missiles and that's what he's doing right now. the japanese are the only ones that will not talk to kim. they say we'll talk to you when denuclearization is handled. when the abductee issue is handled and when the short range missile issue is there and they are there saying we toiled so. >> it's interesting that the president did attend the event with the families of those who have been abduc...

T as i understand it, the japanese, it was a priority for them to include this in this four day state visit. explain to me how, where -- explain to me the significance of this meeting for the japanese side. >> this is the second time he met with families of the japanese abducted by north korea. he said it was an honor to conduct this meeting but this abductee issue is clearly one of the thorny problems between north korea and the outside world that is in addition to north korea's arsenal of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. it's that according to the united nations human...

And is about to, frankly, perhaps lose out on everything, especially going into the g7 summit. so it is concerned about losing out potentially in every scenario. >> besides being eclipsed, perhaps, by another country on the peninsula, what are some of these other concerns that shinzo abe has? >> it is about security. until now in the six-party process, it had secured a position in terms of all of its bilateral issues related to north korea. it's abductee issue. its bilateral issues with north korea in terms of security. its concerns about nuclear weapons. missile concerns. its equity issues on...