Abe to ask Trump to press North Korea on short- and medium range missiles as well as ICBMs

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday that during his trip to the United States next week ahead of the first-ever U.S.-North Korea summit he will ask President Donald Trump to seek the elimination of all North Korean missiles that could reach Japan.

Getting rid of only intercontinental ballistic missiles, which North Korea says can reach the U.S. mainland, "has no meaning for Japan, so I want to tell the president that (North Korea) should also abandon short- and intermediate-range missiles that put Japan within range," Abe said during a Diet committee session.

He also reiterated that he will ask Trump to raise the issue of North Korea's past abductions of Japanese nationals with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.