Summit meeting: North Korea says conversation with the south

The meeting between North and South Korea had already been terminated, now the North has cancelled. A meeting of trumps with North Korea's ruler Kim is also on the brink.

Summit meeting: North Korea says conversation with the south

North Korea has cancelled high-level talks with South Korea scheduled for Wednesday. This was reported by South Korean news agency Yonhap, citing state-owned North Korean news agency KCNA. In addition, according to Yonhap, North Korean government is threatening to cancel summit between leaders Kim Jong Un and US president Donald Trump, to be held in Singapore on 12 June.

The reason for this was a planned military manoeuvre by South Korea with USA. According to KCNA, South Korean and US Air force is simulating an invasion of North with annual Max Thunder exercises. That is a provocation in face of Derverbesserten intra-Korean relations. Therefore, eskeine give a different choice than to cancel meeting, report states.

The US, on or hand, sees no reason to postpone or cancel meeting. "We continue and drive plans for President Trump and Kim Jong-un meetings," said a U.S. State Department spokeswoman. The military exercises were in no way a provocation. These are things that US did all over world, she said.

At meeting in Panmunjom in Derentmilitarisierten Zone, senior representatives of South Korea and North Korea should discuss furr steps towards a peace treaty. The North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korea's president, Moon Jae, had announced at a summit meeting at end of April that Denseit seven decades of war had to end in DiesemJahr.

Date Of Update: 16 May 2018, 12:02
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