Bangladesh, Nov. 17 -- Will North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un go in for a summit with Japans Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in the near future and relations between the two East Asian nations get better?

Observers say the prospects of any Kim-Takaichi summit are bleak. No doubt, one of the top items on Prime Minister Takaichi foreign policy agenda today is to secure the return of the Japanese citizens allegedly abducted by North Korean agents in the late 1970s and 1980s. She has been in touch with the Association of Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea (AFVKN) and the National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea (NARKN)) in the country. She has promised them she would do the needful in the matter. Takai...