Breaking: Trump Cancels June 12 Summit with Kim Jong Un
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U.S. President Donald Trump has cancelled next month’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Trump, in a letter to Kim released Thursday morning, said the face-to-face meeting, which was set to take place on June 12 in Singapore, was “inappropriate” to have “at this time.”
“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.
North Korea Thursday lashed out at the U.S. after Vice President Mike Pence repeated Trump’s threat to use the “Libya model,” a reference to the 2011 U.S.-backed overthrow and murder of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi.
In a statement from, Choe Son-hui, a North Korean vice foreign minister, Pyongyang also protested U.S. demands that it unilaterally denuclearize up front.
“U.S. Vice-President Pence has made unbridled and impudent remarks that North Korea might end like Libya, military option for North Korea never came off the table, the U.S. needs complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization, and so on,” Son-hui said. “As a person involved in the U.S. affairs, I cannot suppress my surprise at such ignorant and stupid remarks gushing out from the mouth of the U.S. vice-president.””
This article is breaking and will be updated as more information becomes available.