Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged on Monday to work with the US, China and Russia to contain North Korea's nuclear threat as he accepted his landslide victory in a snap election

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged on Monday to work with the US, China and Russia to contain North Korea's nuclear threat as he accepted his landslide victory in a snap election
  • The win enables Abe to realize his dream of revising Japan's pacifist constitution
  • Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged on Monday to work with the US, China and Russia to contain North Korea's nuclear threat with 'strong, resolute diplomacy', as he 'humbly' accepted his landslide victory in a snap election.
Addressing reporters on his election win, Abe said he would 'confirm close co-operation' on North Korea with Donald Trump when the US president visits Japan next month and then discuss the issue with the Chinese and Russian leaders.
Addressing reporters on his election win, Abe said he would 'confirm close co-operation' on North Korea with Donald Trump when the US president visits Japan next month and then discuss the issue with the Chinese and Russian leaders
Addressing reporters on his election win, Abe said he would 'confirm close co-operation' on North Korea with Donald Trump when the US president visits Japan next month and then discuss the issue with the Chinese and Russian leaders
'I have renewed my determination to secure people's lives and peaceful living, no matter what,' said the 63-year-old leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
Abe and Trump spoke on by phone after the Japaneses premier's win on Sunday and agreed to work together to raise pressure on North Korea.
The two leaders will play golf together on November 5, when Trump makes his first visit to Japan as president, Yasutoshi Nishimura, a deputy chief cabinet secretary, told reporters.
During their 30-minute phone call, Abe told Trump that he had urged necessity of 'placing as much pressure as possible on North Korea so it will change its policies under the unshakable Japan-US alliance', a government official told Japan Today.
Abe is now on course to become Japan's longest-serving premier, winning a fresh term at the helm of the world's third-biggest economy and key US regional ally
Abe is now on course to become Japan's longest-serving premier, winning a fresh term at the helm of the world's third-biggest economy and key US regional ally
The opposition Party of Hope, formed only weeks before the election by the popular Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike (pictured speaking to press from Paris on Sunday), suffered a drubbing. It won just 49 seats according to the NHK projections
The opposition Party of Hope, formed only weeks before the election by the popular Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike (pictured speaking to press from Paris on Sunday), suffered a drubbing. It won just 49 seats according to the NHK projections