International Crisis Group has a report on Japan-North Korea tensions and what may need to be done to reach a breakthrough:
Relations between Japan and North Korea continue to deteriorate due to concerns over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program and past abductions of Japanese citizens. Nearly a decade and a half of efforts at normalising relations between the countries have faltered due to Pyongyang’s unwillingness to give up that program or come clean over the abductions. For Japan, normalisation would help preserve regional stability and represent one more step toward closure on its wartime history; for North Korea, it would potentially produce the single greatest economic infusion for reviving its moribund economy. Indeed, the prospect of normalisation with Japan is one of the leading incentives that can be offered to North Korea in a deal to end the North’s nuclear programs.
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I wonder if this deterioration in relations is merely a war of words, or is it more tangible? North Korea is the world’s number one producer of high quality pine mushrooms, and Japan is the world’s number one consumer. Has Japanese agner jelled to the point that they are cutting back trade with the Norks?
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