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On June 11, 2018, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a press conference at the Prime Minister’s Office.
 
With respect to the summit telephone talk with the Honorable Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, the Prime Minister said,
 
“Ahead of the U.S.-North Korea summit meeting tomorrow, I received a phone call from President Trump saying that he wanted to have a discussion with me based on the latest situation and we held a Japan-U.S. Summit Telephone Talk.
 
President Trump said that the U.S.-North Korea summit meeting would take place tomorrow from 9 a.m. local time and that he intended to have thorough discussions at the meeting. President Trump explained the latest situation, as arrangements continue to be made among working-level officials. We also engaged in detailed coordination on how to approach the summit meeting tomorrow. I believe that Japan and the United States, as well as Japan, the United States, and the Republic of Korea, fully share and are in agreement on the basic approach to the meeting.
 
I hope tomorrow’s summit meeting will be a historic meeting and a major step towards peace and stability in Northeast Asia. We also reaffirmed that President Trump would raise the abduction issue at the meeting. I strongly hope that the summit meeting will serve as an opportunity to make progress on the outstanding issues of concern, including the nuclear and missile issues as well as the abduction issue, and that it will be a success.”