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N. Korean leader's sister rejects Japan's summit proposal
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The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Monday rejected Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's hopes for summit talks, saying Japan must first abandon "anachronistic practices." According to a pool report, Takaichi expressed "a very strong desire" to meet directly with the North Korean leader during her talks with US President Donald Trump in Washington last week. "This is not the one that comes true, as wanted or decided by Japan," Kim Yo-jong, a department director in the N