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By Ryan Bort
57 minutes ago
... The relationship began to deteriorate .. when North Korea released a memo explaining that the nation was not willing to denuclearize in exchange for sanctions relief. The memo also described a "feeling of repugnance" toward .. Bolton, who had repeatedly called for North Korea to denuclearize entirely, citing the agreement the United States reached with Libya in 2003.
Several outlets reported that Trump was angered and confused by the news, and that the president spent the weekend discussing with aides whether it might not be a good idea to go through with the summit at all. The New York Times noted the president was "increasingly concerned" the meeting could be a "political embarrassment" ...
On Monday, Vice President Mike Pence appeared on Fox News to discuss the issue, noting that North Korea could end up like Libya if a deal is not struck ...
On Thursday morning, Kim made good on his promise to dismantle the site, staging a demolition spectacle in front of a group of international reporters. Several components of the site Punggye-ri in northern North Korea were destroyed with explosives, and although some hailed this as a major step toward denuclearization, others equated the gesture to nothing more than a means of destroying evidence. "The North Koreans have conducted all these tests here, every single weapons test, so if they let experts in to look at these tunnels before they let anyone else in, that would be potentially for us an intelligence boon," Bruce Bechtol, a political science professor who has written several books on North Korea, told CNN. Journalists who attempted to bring in equipment to measure the radiation of the wreckage had their tools confiscated ...
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/trump-north-korea-canceled-w520712
struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)Moon Jae-in, had played a pivotal role in setting up recent diplomatic developments ... Moon and his aides convened emergency meetings to address the shock announcement, which broke shortly before midnight in Seoul ...
The news came as North Korea made a show of dismantling a nuclear test site, but also on the heels of some sharp words from the North Korean government about America denuclearization demands. Trump's decision also comes more than two weeks after he withdrew the U.S. from the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal, which had lifted sanctions on the Middle Eastern country as long as it limited its nuclear program ...
Trump cancels Singapore nuclear summit
Mike Calia
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Hugin
(33,189 posts)Too late, you bloated orange buffoon.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)It would effect them and possibly cause massive radiation problems in NK (as well as the physical damage to people).
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)No prob.
struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)MAY 24, 2018 / 7:46 AM / UPDATED 17 MINUTES AGO
... In a later statement at the White House, Trump said he had spoken to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and warned North Korea against any reckless act, saying, Our military is the most powerful in the world.
We are more ready than we have ever been before, Trump said.
He said South Korea and Japan were also ready to shoulder much of the financial burden if an unfortunate situation is forced upon us by North Korea ...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles/trump-cancels-summit-with-north-korea-scheduled-for-next-month-idUSKCN1IP1RY?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=932