N. Korea slams Lee's summit with Ishiba as bid to woo Washington

North Korea on Monday criticized President Lee Jae Myung's recent summit with the Japanese prime minister, calling it a diplomatic show aimed at dispelling Washington's misunderstanding. The North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) issued the criticism in a commentary by a North Korean individual, following Lee's summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Saturday. During the summit, which came shortly before Lee's scheduled talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday (local time), the leaders underscored the importance of strengthening both their bilateral and trilateral cooperation with the United States for peace and stability. The KCNA referred to Lee's meeting with Ishiba before Trump, saying it "seems to ignore the tradition of pro-U.S. subservient diplomacy." It added that this stems from "the U.S. distrust in the present (Republic of Korea) ruler and his worries as a servant of the U.S." "It would be right to say that the recent ROK-Japan summit was a diplomatic show caused by the uneasiness of Seoul, which aims to remove the misunderstanding of WasWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times