I saw this as breaking news on RT. I immediately checked out CNN - no mention of it whatsoever. No surprise there.
North Korea has canceled a summit with South Korea and has threatened to call off a summit between US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un over American military drills with South Korea, according to South Korean media reports.
Pyongyang has canceled talks with Seoul due to ongoing Max Thunder military exercises between the South and the US, Yonhap news agency cited North Korean media. The drills have been described by the North as a rehearsal for invasion of the DPKR and a provocation amid warming inter-Korean ties.
AFP reported that North Korea has also threatened to scrap the highly-anticipated summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The report comes hours after Seoul and Pyongyang agreed on Tuesday to hold high-level inter-Korea talks on May 16. The leaders were planning to discuss steps needed to follow the plan of the peninsula's demilitarization.
I hope they can figure it out. North Korea has been surprisingly well behaved as of late. Maybe we should hold off on the military exercises until we see if Kim is serious about peace?
north korea is well behaved because the little porker wants something, probably to feed his troops and some of his citizens, as they are probably getting tired of being hungry
you cant have troops fighting a war if they are hungry .
I say fuck that fat little bastard! They are in no position to be making demands!
Everyone makes me sick, just a few months ago this prick was threatening to nuke the USA while testing missiles and nuclear bombs! Anyone forget that?
This little fat fuckers entire family has been nothing but a lying, conning and manipulative bunch!
And I didn't want to say anything about it, but how about them three hostages Trump has been bragging about!? I seen them on TV and they don't look like Americans to me! Look like they are Korean or at least Asian!
If Trump bends over like Obama to save face on pushing thru a deal then I will be very disappointed. But I am sure they will call off the drills to appease the fat fucker who is just cheating us all thru the entire process anyway.
Meanwhile Russia has just completed a multi-billion dollar bridge to their new-found annexed Crimea land...
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And I didn't want to say anything about it, but how about them three hostages Trump has been bragging about!? I seen them on TV and they don't look like Americans to me! Look like they are Korean or at least Asian!
And I don't want to come off as that VW guy, quoting myself...
But the last white guy to be sent back from North Korea died shortly after from an infection he got there!
That kids family was not given the attention it deserved as they publicly went on TV to remind people what North Korea did to their "ALL AMERICAN" son.
North Korea will NEVER live up to any agreements it makes and will probably be making any agreements knowing they have hidden nukes and in violation of any agreement.
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President Donald Trump laid out a stark choice for North Korea's Kim Jong Un ahead of their planned summit next month: abandon nuclear weapons and be rewarded with "protections," or risk being overthrown and possible death if the arsenal remains.
Trump maintains the scheduled June 12 meeting in Singapore is on track, despite the North's threat on Wednesday to cancel over concerns about the U.S. push to see the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
The North has argued that it needs its nuclear weapons to preserve its security, and has expressed concerns about giving up its nuclear program. The North cites the example of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who died at the hands of rebel forces amid a popular uprising in October 2011; he had given up his nuclear program in the 2000s.
Trying to address the North Korean concerns, the president said that if Kim were to agree to denuclearize, "he'll get protections that would be very strong."
But Trump warned that failure to make a deal could have grave consequences for Kim. Mentioning what happened in Libya, Trump said: "That model would take place if we don't make a deal."
Trump said Thursday that nothing has changed with respect to North Korea after the warning from Pyongyang. He said North Korean officials are discussing logistical details about the meeting with the U.S. "as if nothing happened."
In addition to threatening to pull out of the meeting with Trump, the North abruptly canceled a planned meeting with South Korean officials over joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises.
Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said Thursday that the schedule of military exercises hasn't changed. She added the annual exercises are long-planned, defensive in nature and meant to ensure the readiness of U.S. and South Korean forces.
Exercise Max Thunder began Monday and concludes May 25. It includes aircraft from across the U.S. military services. Last year's exercise included roughly 1,200 U.S. personnel and about 640 South Koreans. This year's drill is similar.
Speaking at an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Trump also said he will not discuss U.S. troop levels in South Korea during his meeting with Kim.
The North has said it will not return to talks with Seoul due to the exercises.
Perhaps Kim is afraid "protections" from a government that reverses Iran policy on a whim are meaningless. Not entirely an unfounded concern if you ask me.
North Korea really doesn't bring anything to the table... It really bothers me to no end that a nation such as North Korea is even being given a chance! If they want to blow it fine by me because honestly I am in the camp that feels he needs to be eliminated sooner rather than later. Kim and his entire family have taken this way too far, and it would be one thing if they existed in their hermit kingdom without bothering anyone - but they aren't.
We are talking about a guy that has had many people who disagree with him killed, literally fed them to the dogs! He had his own brother poisoned from afar and has been working to create a nuclear bomb and ways to deliver them with the explicit instructions that they are to be used against the United States of America!
If they did anything but arrest this man the minute he left his oppressed kingdom and tried him for high crimes against humanity I'd be greatly disappointed.
But Trump has a plan, and while I can't see where he is going with this right now he has a proven track record for pulling rabbits out of the hat... So I will sit here and smile and act like I'll go along with it if only because I know that Little Kim will never live up to the terms. I sure do hope this conclusion is realized prior to giving him any money - ie Iran.
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Feel like I am staying at the Trump International Las Vegas...
Maybe we do have a room, maybe we don't... if you give us twice our asking price we do... but if you don't we can only give you handicapped accommodations...
Classic New York Shuffle...
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But Trump has a plan, and while I can't see where he is going with this right now he has a proven track record for pulling rabbits out of the hat... So I will sit here and smile and act like I'll go along with it if only because I know that Little Kim will never live up to the terms. I sure do hope this conclusion is realized prior to giving him any money - ie Iran.
Well, looks like Trump pulled a rabbit out of the hat! or should I say he pulled a Little Kim out of the hat.
Just seeing Trump with Kim makes me feel a bit woozy, I'd imagine the same way Democrats felt when they seen Obama kicking it with Castro...
Seems to me Trump has at least gotten the area more stable, without even firing a single rocket. I have to tip my hat to him on that!
Can't say I like little Kim any more that I did before Trump met with him, so in a way I am glad it's Trump and Rodman that has to deal with his BS and not me...
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I seem to recall Obama saying that he would be willing to meet with Kim, only to have the entire right wing media freak out for weeks. When Trump actually does it though, it's a major step in foreign policy though, and worthy of the Nobel peace prize - interesting.
Just love how the Fat Fucker Kim is trying to say the USA is "gangster-like" with it's request for total nuclear disarmament, like there was ever any reason we started talking to that fat brat other than his own "gangster-like" threats about the use of nuclear weapons against the USA.
I have to be quite honest in saying that I do not like Kim, not one bit! I hope we dig his ass out of a hole just like Saddam and hang him for all his people he has oppressed to see.
I am totally at a loss as to why they have not cooked this motherfucker alive with the technology we have now days. You can't tell me we don't have the power to incinerate this man like an ant with a magnifying glass from space! I don't want to send a single American over there to waste their time rooting out this asshole! His country is shit, they have NOTHING to offer anyone because they are a complete dictatorship - much like China except we have made countless concessions to accommodate their communistic ways... American business have bent over backwards for China only to take it in the ass and it serves them right for moving production over there in the first place!
The bottom line here is this, the ONLY thing North Korea brings to the table is extortion, except they don't have the ability to carry out their threats! We need to pull back the curtain on the next big thing and I am pretty sure that is what Trump's "Space-Force" is going to be about... It's going to be about using high powered lasers from satellites to reign in on these bad actors! Should Trump choose to waste American troops, money and supplies on these crack-pot dictators it will only prove to get someone else elected. Barring an actual attack on US soil by North Korea, the American Public would not waste the time and effort to go in and wipe this stain from the earth. We see it all the time with these smaller nations who have people that start to think they are way more important than what they are... And yet time and again we get stuck with the bill to wipe these deranged, self absorbed idiots off the earth.
I have no more patience for North Korea, or China for that matter.
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There's always another drone you can use...Or M.O.A.B...
N.K. needs the backing of China IMO, not the US-of-A...Only through China will the country survive in relative peace.
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