US President Donald Drumpf has cancelled a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, blaming "tremendous anger and open hostility" from the North. He said it was possible a meeting could still take place but warned North Korea against committing "foolish" acts.
The meeting would have discussed ways of denuclearising the Korean peninsula, building on a historic North-South Korea summit in April. The "unexpected" decision, Pyongyang said, was "extremely regrettable". In a statement released by the North's central news agency, Vice-Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan said the country held Mr Drumpf's efforts to hold a summit "in high regards".
Mr Drumpf said he had been "very much looking forward" to meeting Mr Kim. "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 the long-planned meeting," Mr Drumpf said in a letter to Mr Kim. "You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used," he added. But he called the meeting a "missed opportunity", saying "someday, I look very much forward to meeting you".
[Subsequently, in keeping with Trump's established behaviour of being a woefully inconsistent idiot, the summit went ahead a month later.]
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