{"id":65336,"date":"2018-05-17T09:44:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T07:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=65336"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T07:44:55","slug":"north-korea-threatens-to-cancel-trump-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/05\/17\/north-korea-threatens-to-cancel-trump-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea threatens to cancel Trump summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kim-jong-un.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-57441\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kim-jong-un-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kim-jong-un-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/kim-jong-un.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>North Korea has said it may pull out of a summit with President Donald Trump if the United States (US) insists that it abandons its nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The highly anticipated meeting between Trump and North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong-un is due to take place on June 12.<\/p>\n<p>But, in an angry statement, North Korea\u2019s vice foreign minister accused the US of making reckless statements and of harbouring sinister intentions.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed the finger squarely at US National Security Adviser John Bolton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not hide our feeling of repugnance towards him,\u201d Kim Kye-gwan said.<\/p>\n<p>The groundbreaking agreement for Kim and Trump to meet came about as North Korea said it was committed to denuclearising the Korean peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly what that would entail has remained unclear, but North Korea has invited foreign media to witness the dismantling of its main nuclear test site later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton recently said North Korea could follow a \u201cLibya model\u201d of verifiable denuclearisation, but this alarms Pyongyang, which watched Libya\u2019s Colonel Gaddafi give up his nuclear programme only for him to be killed by Western-backed rebels a few years later.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC\u2019s Laura Bicker in Seoul says North Korea \u2013which had long said its nuclear arsenal is essential for its survival as a state\u2014is making its demands clear.<\/p>\n<p>Kim\u2019s statement, carried by State media, said if the US \u201ccorners us, and unilaterally demands we give up nuclear weapons, we will no longer have an interest in talks\u201d and \u201cwill have to reconsider\u201d attending the June 12 summit in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>He said North Korea did have \u201chigh hopes\u201d but that it was \u201cvery unfortunate that the US is provoking us ahead of the summit by spitting out ludicrous statements\u201d. \u2014 <strong>BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has said it may pull out of a summit with President Donald Trump if the United States (US) insists that it abandons its nuclear weapons. The highly anticipated meeting between Trump and North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong-un is due to take place on June 12. But, in an angry statement, North Korea\u2019s vice foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65339,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65336\/revisions\/65339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}