{"id":166574,"date":"2018-06-07T22:30:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T02:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=166574"},"modified":"2018-06-07T22:30:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T02:30:45","slug":"trump-greets-japans-abe-for-talks-ahead-of-kim-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/07\/trump-greets-japans-abe-for-talks-ahead-of-kim-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump greets Japan&#8217;s Abe for talks ahead of Kim summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89379\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89379\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16711545_1715488382096279_2368801689289650241_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89379\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16711545_1715488382096279_2368801689289650241_n.jpg\" alt=\"Abe requested Thursday's meeting with Trump to co-ordinate strategy for the next week's talks and to elevate his country's concerns about the summit.(Photo: President Donald J. Trump Fans'\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16711545_1715488382096279_2368801689289650241_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16711545_1715488382096279_2368801689289650241_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16711545_1715488382096279_2368801689289650241_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abe requested Thursday&#8217;s meeting with Trump to co-ordinate strategy for the next week&#8217;s talks and to elevate his country&#8217;s concerns about the summit.(Photo: President Donald J. Trump Fans&#8217;\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON-President Donald Trump is welcoming Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the White House for consultations before the U.S. leader meets with North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong Un next week in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Abe requested Thursday&#8217;s meeting with Trump to co-ordinate strategy for the next week&#8217;s talks and to elevate his country&#8217;s concerns about the summit.<\/p>\n<p>Abe is pushing Trump to raise the issue of Japanese abductees held in North Korea, and he is seeking to ensure that Trump&#8217;s efforts to negotiate an agreement with Kim don&#8217;t harm Japan&#8217;s interests.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. allies in the region have expressed concern that Trump&#8217;s push to denuclearize the Korean peninsula could ignore the North&#8217;s sophisticated ballistic missile and chemical weapons programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON-President Donald Trump is welcoming Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the White House for consultations before the U.S. leader &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":89379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[51771,14087],"class_list":["post-166574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-apanese-prime-minister-shinzo-abe","tag-president-donald-trump","mauthors-zeke-miller-and-catherine-lucey","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}