Frank Buckley Interviews

Taro Kono is the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Japan and has served in that position since August 2017. He is an eight-term member of Japan's House of Representatives and a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. During this podcast, Minister Kono discusses the state of U.S.-Japan relations including Japan's perspectives on the $68.9 billion U.S. trade deficit with Japan, President Trump's threatened tariffs against Japanese auto imports into the U.S., along with the Japanese view on North Korea and President Trump's recent summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/frankbuckleyinterviews.