Asia security forum delayed, Japan-N. Korea contact unlikely: sources
June 28, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
This file photo taken on June 14, 2018 shows Kim Yong Guk, right, then head of the Disarmament and Peace Institute, a think tank under the North Korean Foreign Ministry, and Fumio Shimizu, at the time an official of the Japanese Foreign Ministry s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, sitting side-by-side during a photo session of a forum in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) A forum on Northeast Asian security issues will be postponed again due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, ending the possibility of informal contact between Japan and North Korea on the sidelines of the meeting, diplomatic sources said Sunday.