North Korea STILL prepared for WAR if relations with Japan DO NOT improve

Moon Jae-in has stressed to Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that “peace on the Korean Peninsula is not possible only with a South-North summit”.

In a phone call that lasted around 45 minutes, President Moon said that North and South Korea relations can move forward when the hermit kingdom improves relations with Japan, as well as the US.

South Korea’s President’s remarks come amid concerns from Japan that it may be left behind in the speedy diplomacy on the North.

Mr Moon is scheduled to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un at the end of April.

The dictator also plans to meet with the US President, Donald Trump by May.

President Moon and Prime Minister Abe agreed to work together to resolve pending issues between the North and Japan, including the issue surrounding North Korean agents who allegedly kidnapped Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s.

Mr Moon is hoping for a visit to Japan as early as possible and seeking to hold trilateral summit talks involving China at an early date.

Both the South Korean and Japanese chiefs did not discuss the sensitive matter of Japan’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War 2 in their phone conversation, a Cheong Wa Dae official told reporters.

The Moon-Abe phone call marked their 10th conversation and first in the last four months.

The phone call between the two leaders comes after reports North Korea may have once again started preliminary testing of its nuclear reactors following the emergence of new satellite images.

The new images showing emissions rising from a reactor, which are said to be from February 25, bring into question the dictator-run state’s seriousness about reducing its nuclear capability.

Rob Munks, Editor of Jane’s Intelligence Review, said the light-water reactor “could be used for civilian electricity generation, its stated purpose, or diverted towards the nuclear program”.

He added that the nuclear reactor could be operational by the end of the year “with little warning”.

The allegations from Jane’s Intelligence Review come just weeks after it was suggested that Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump could meet face-to-face to talk about the nuclear disarmament of Pyongyang.

In 2017 North Korea held a number of missile tests to check its nuclear capability.

By the end of the year, the rogue state said it held weapons capable of reaching the whole of the US, causing alarm and panic across the globe.

The tests were coupled by an escalating war of words between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump.

However, in January the Asian nation suspended its nuclear programme and appeared to reach out to the neighbouring South.