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Pyongyang Halts Talks With South Korea

Pyongyang (May 16, 2018): North Korea has cancelled Wednesday’s high-level talks with South Korea because of anger over its joint military exercises with the United States.

The North’s official news agency said the exercises were a “provocation” and a rehearsal for an invasion.It also warned the US over the fate of the historic summit between Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump that is scheduled for June 12.Pyongyang says the US should carefully consider the fate of the North Korea-US summit, in view of what it calls “provocative military disturbances with South Korea.”

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert defended joint US-South Korean military exercises Tuesday and said the US had not heard of any disruptions to either the planned exercises or the upcoming summit.Nauert said, “We have not heard anything from that government or the government of South Korea to indicate that we would not continue conducting these exercises or that we would not continue planning for our meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un next month.”

“Let’s not get ahead of ourselves,” she cautioned to reporters. “This news just came out. We need to verify it to get additional information on that but we’re going forward in planning our meetings next month.”A senior administration official said that President Donald Trump has been alerted to the warning about the fate of the June 12 summit in Singapore and that the White House is preparing a response.

Talks between the Koreas were set to resume Wednesday. North Korean news agency reported that Max Thunder 2018 air combat drill was against the Panmunjom declaration — signed last month between the Koreas — wherein they agreed to cease all hostile acts against each other.

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