The upcoming summit between North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump is intended to focus on denuclearization, formally ending the Korean War, improving inter-Korean relations, and establishing a lasting peace on the peninsula.

Amid all the optimism, however, it is time for a dash of reality.

Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has extracted a promise from Trump to bring up the subject of Pyongyang’s abduction of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s. Additionally, there are those who want to inject the topic of North Korea’s extensive human rights violations into the deliberations.

There is a