Kim Jong Un's sister says Japan's Kishida seeks North Korea summit

TOKYO -- Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said in a statement released Monday that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida recently expressed his intention to hold summit talks with her brother.

"Last month, I gave my view on the fact that Japanese Prime Minister Kishida expressed his desire for DPRK-Japan summit talks at the Diet," the vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea said in the message published Monday by the state Korean Central News Agency.