An unexpected third face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sunday underscored that Japan is entirely out of the loop on the denuclearization issue amid the fraying of its ties with the South.Japanese diplomats ostensibly welcome the hastily arranged Trump-Kim meeting, which most foreign affairs experts did not foresee happening, expressing hope that Washington and Pyongyang will restart denuclearization talks in a full-fledged manner.But some Japanese government officials indicated they had not obtained information in advance about wh…READ FULL ARTICLE
