US President Donald Trump has canceled a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un........
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is not meeting US president Donald Trump The two leaders were scheduled to meet in Singapore on June 12. Trump has announced the cancellation of the meeting on Thursday.
The BBC News reported that Trump had decided to cancel the meeting after being upset over a recent North Korean statement. Trump also called the statement 'openly hostile'.
With the announcement of the cancellation of the meeting, Trump said it will not be advisable to hold a meeting on June 12. In a letter sent to Kim, Trump said he will wait for another day to meet Kim.
There is still no response from North Korea against the cancellation of the trump meeting.
There was talk of a trump meeting with North Korea for a few days. It was also feared that the meeting could be disrupted.
A CNN report citing a senior official of the Trump administration said that before the meeting of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, the high officials of the two countries wanted a meeting of the trump administration. Besides, the United States was also seeking confirmation of the withdrawal of nuclear program from North Korea before the top two leaders' meeting.
KIM WROTE TO TRUMP'S LETTER:
A joint military exercise with South Korea is scheduled to be held. North Korea had threatened earlier - when the military exercise was held, they would withdraw from the meeting with the trump. After continuing the pressure to withdraw from the nuclear program, Pyongyang threatened to have the same consequences.
Earlier, Trump himself announced in a tweet message that on June 12 Singapore will sit with Kim Jong-un in Singapore. Trump said on Tuesday that North Korea has to fulfill certain conditions for the meeting. If they do not do that, then the meeting may take place at any other time instead of next month. But he did not mention any specific time.
The BBC said it called on journalists today to reduce the tension in the Korean Peninsula, destroying the only nuclear test center in front of them. The deployment tunnels are also visible in satellite images. Twenty journalists picked from different countries witnessed the destruction of the tunnel.