Posted on 05/15/2018 12:11:24 PM PDT by GIdget2004
North Korea said Wednesday it is canceling high-level talks with South Korea planned for later in the day due to ongoing military exercises between the South and the United States.
The North's Korean Central News Agency said the Max Thunder drills between the South Korean and U.S. air forces are a rehearsal for invasion of the North and a provocation amid warming inter-Korean ties.
It also called into question whether next month's summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump can go ahead as planned.
"This exercise targeting us, which is being carried out across South Korea, is a flagrant challenge to the Panmunjom Declaration and an intentional military provocation running counter to the positive political development on the Korean Peninsula," the KCNA report said. "The United States will also have to undertake careful deliberations about the fate of the planned North Korea-U.S. summit in light of this provocative military ruckus jointly conducted with the South Korean authorities."
The two-week exercise kicked off Friday, involving some 100 warplanes, including eight F-22 radar-evading fighters and an unspecified number of B-52 bombers and F-15K jets.
The high-level talks were meant to take place on the southern side of the truce village of Panmunjom to discuss follow-up measures to the two Korean leaders' summit last month.
The summit agreement, billed the Panmunjom Declaration, called for formally ending the 1950-53 Korean War within the year and pursuing "complete denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula.
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and so it starts ,demand this and demand that ,LOL
You may be correct about us pulling our troops out after everything else has been accomplished and verified and North Korea has been the denuclearized etc.
I personally would like to see them come home but even if that becomes part of the final deal it will be a slow process.
Exactly. Trump should board Air Force One on the pre-agreed date, with the announcement "I'm headed to Singapore. I fully expect Chairman Kim to meet me there. If he chooses to not show up, I will take that as a sign he wishes to have all current sanctions remain in place, if not increased."
Kim is just trying to see if he has ANY clout. And he will quickly find out he has NO clout.
Here it comes.
Kim’s manic and manipulative BS didn’t stay in abeyance very long.
Can’t help the bluster.....they have to know the pain they are experienceing that set up the talks will only get worse if they opt out...China may push the envelope but I think they have other interests that outweigh the “hazard” of N.K. becoming a peaceful entrant into the modern world.
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