Overheard at UN: Japan Asks Iran for Some Help on North Korea
A North Korean soldier takes a photograph, background, as a South Korean soldier, foreground, stands guard at the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea, on April 17, 2017.
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Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono asked his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif to reach out to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to defuse an increasingly hostile war of words with President Donald Trump.
“You have to help us with North Korea,” Kono was overheard telling Zarif at the start of a meeting Friday, before any of the usual diplomatic greetings and niceties.