TOKYO — Japan’s new prime minister, stepping from the shadows of his longtime supporting role, said Saturday in his debut at the U.N. General Assembly that he’s willing to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un without any conditions. Much as he’s done domestically in the week and a half that he’s been prime minister, Suga is eager to …
Considered something of a lightweight on foreign policy issues, Japan’s new prime minister has spent much of his career in the shadows, supporting previous leader Shinzo Abe with backroom bureaucratic maneuvers and in largely scripted, sometimes prickly dealings with the media. He is “a capable lieutenant who will follow Abe’s foreign policy.” Because of the constraints on travel and face-to-face …
