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NKOREA THREATENS TO CANCEL SUMMIT!
Kim's regime said through state-run news agency KCNA that ongoing 'Max Thunder' joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea are actually a 'rehearsal for invasion' of the North.
TRUMP: WE'LL SEE IF STILL ON... President Donald Trump says "we'll have to see" if a historic summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un will still happen.Pyongyang threatened to pull out of the meeting if the U.S. insists on denuclearization."We haven't been notified at all" about whether Kim plans to cancel the summit, Trump said."
(UPI) -- Joint exercises
between the United States and South Korea will move forward but the B-52
strategic bomber and eight F-22 Raptors will not be deployed during drills.
The decision to downscale the
drills was reached between U.S. Forces Korea Commander Vincent Brooks and South
Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo Wednesday, after North Korea criticized the joint exercise
Max Thunder being held in the South, News 1 reported.
Donald
Trump’s historic meeting with Kim Jong-un has
been thrown into uncertainty as North Korea warned it could be cancelled
over US military exercises and if Washington presses ahead
with its one-sided demand for Pyongyang to give up its nuclear
arsenal.
Kim
Kye-gwan, North Korea's deputy foreign minister, warned on Wednesday that
Pyongyang was not interested in talks that would pressure the rogue state to
"unilaterally" give up its nuclear programme, taking aim at
"unbridled remarks" by John Bolton, the US national security adviser,
and other high-ranking White House officials.
