Asahi posted on its website a Reuters story on Ambassador Hagerty’s meeting with LDP Secretary General Nikai at the LDP headquarters on Friday. The report said that according to a senior MOFA official who sat in the meeting, the Ambassador and the LDP official shared the view that North Korea is a common challenge for the U.S. and Japan and that Washington and Tokyo will work closely to call on China and Russia to cooperate in dealing with Pyongyang.