JUST IN: Trump Cancels Summit With North Korea’s Kim Jong Un
U.S President Donald Trump has cancelled his planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next month, the White House announced in a letter on Thursday.
The highly anticipated meeting in Singapore on June 12, would have been the first ever meeting between a sitting US president and North Korean leader.
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“I was very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting,” Trump wrote.
“Therefore, please let this letter serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place.”
Trump’s decision comes hours after North Korea blew up their blew up one of their nuclear test sites.
According to CNN, Trump withdrew from the summit after Choe Son Hui, a vice-minister in the North Korean Foreign Ministry slammed Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday as a “political dummy”.
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Choe, on Thursday, said Pyongyang is ready for a nuclear showdown if dialogue with the United States fails.
“Whether the US will meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown is entirely dependent upon the decision and behavior of the United States,” Choe was quoted as saying by North Korea’s state-run KCNA news agency.
