UPDATED: Trump cancels summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un [View all]
Source: Washington Post
President Trump on Thursday canceled a planned summit next month with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, citing “tremendous anger and open hostility” from the rogue nation in a letter explaining his abrupt decision. “I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting,” Trump said to Kim in a letter released by the White House on Thursday morning. The summit had been planned for June 12 in Singapore.
In his letter, Trump held open the possibility that the two leaders could meet at a later date to discuss denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, which Trump has been pushing.
The decision came amid hostile warnings from North Korea in recent days that it was reconsidering participation. North Korea said Wednesday that it is up to the United States to decide whether it wants to “meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown.”
A close aide to Kim unleashed a torrent of invective against the Trump administration Thursday morning, calling Vice President Pence a “political dummy” for remarks he made Monday in a television interview that made reference to the downfall of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi.
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Here is the letter linked to at the OP article - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4483000-White-House-letter-Trump-Kim-summit-canceled.html
Original article -
"I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting," President Trump wrote to Kim in a letter released by the White House.
The summit had been planned for June 12 in Singapore.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/24/trump-cancels-summit-with-north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un/?utm_term=.2e1fa07d48ab
New York times story -
By Eileen Sullivan
May 24, 2018
WASHINGTON -- President Trump has notified Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, that he has canceled their much-anticipated meeting, which was set for June 12.
In a letter dated Thursday to Mr. Kim, the American president said he would not attend the summit due to "tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement."
He was referring to recent comments from a North Korean official who described Vice President Mike Pence as "ignorant and stupid."
"Some day, I look very much forward to meeting you," Mr. Trump concluded.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/world/asia/north-korea-trump-summit.html
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