Official / North Korea suspended talks with South: Quizzed meeting with Trump

North Korea said it suspended high-level talks with South Korea scheduled for Wednesday over US-South Korean military exercises and threatened to cancel a meeting with US President Donald Trump.

The official Korean news agency KCNA called the provocation of the US-South Korean airborne drill, which it said were involved American invisible fighters and B-52 bombers and said that Pyongyang had no choice but to suspend talks, Hina reported.

It was doubtful whether the meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-do and US President Donald Trump would be held next month, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap."This exercise targeting us across South Korea is an obvious challenge to the Panmunyama declaration and a deliberate military provocation against the positive development of the Korean Peninsula," Yonhap KCNA said.

"The US will also have to carefully consider the fate of the planned North Korea-US meeting in light of this provocative military muddle jointly carried out with the authorities of South Korea."Kim and Trump are scheduled to meet in Singapore on June 12 at a meeting that until recently seemed impossible after insults and threats exchanged between them last year as tensions grew because of North Korea's development of nuclear missiles capable of hitting the United States.

Heather Nauert, a spokeswoman for the State Department, said there was no information from North Korea about the threat to cancel the meeting and that it continued to plan this event.

• 17 May, 2018
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