Trump cancels summit with North Korea’s Kim

Trump cancels summit with North Korea’s Kim

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1. U.S. President Donald Trump called off his planned June 12 meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which was to take place in Singapore.

Important Facts

1. In March, Mr. Trump had accepted an offer from Mr. Kim of a summit, conveyed through South Korean interlocutors.
2. But on Thursday US called of meeting blaming North Korea to show open hostility and anger. Trump in his letter to Mr. Kim said that it is inappropriate to have long-planned meeting at this time.
3. Earlier in the day, North Korea demolished its nuclear test site in a series of huge explosions as a group of foreign journalists looked on. North Korea’s state media called the closure of the site part of a process to build “a nuclear-free, peaceful world” and “global nuclear disarmament.”
4. In recent statement Choe Son Hui, a vice-minister in the North Korean Foreign Ministry, talked of a “nuclear-to-nuclear showdown” with the U.S, threatening to call off the summit.
5. The statement from North Korea was in response to a statement from U.S Vice-President Mike Pence, in which he warned off a “Libya model” if Mr. Kim did not agree to denuclearise.

• Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi dismantled his nuclear programme in an agreement in 2004 but ended up murdered by political opponents supported by America in 2011.

1. The leader of North Korea had met with South Korean President President Moon Jae-in, and traveled to China twice to meet with President Xi Jinping since the announcement of the summit.