Yomiuri wrote that Special Representative for North Korea Biegun and MOFA Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Director-General Kanasugi spoke by phone on Tuesday, speculating that the two officials coordinated their policies on DPRK denuclearization and confirmed trilateral cooperation between the United States, Japan, and South Korea. The paper also conjectured that Special Representative Biegun, who visited China after the second U.S.-DPRK summit held in Hanoi in February, briefed his Japanese counterpart on the details of discussions between the United States and China. Sankei ran a similar report.