일본은 그간 납북자 문제의 해결 없이는 북일 관계 정상화는 물론 대북 지원도 없다는 입장을 일관되게 견지해 왔다.
Japan has consistently maintained that there is absolutely no support for North Korea as well as normalization of relations between North Korea and Japan without resolving the abductee issue.