{"id":65708,"date":"2018-05-16T20:20:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=65708"},"modified":"2018-05-16T20:20:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:20:28","slug":"n-korea-suspends-talks-with-south-threatens-to-cancel-us-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=65708","title":{"rendered":"N Korea suspends talks with South, threatens to cancel US summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang, May 16 (TNS): North Korea said it was suspending high-level talks with\u00a0South Korea\u00a0scheduled for Wednesday because of US-South Korean military exercises, which it said threatened warming ties on the divided peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea&#8217;s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) also cast doubt on whether next month&#8217;s summit between North Korean leader\u00a0Kim Jong-unand US President\u00a0<u>Donald Trump<\/u>\u00a0would go ahead as planned, South Korea&#8217;s Yonhap news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Yonhap quoted KCNA as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States will also have to undertake careful deliberations about the fate of the planned North Korea-US summit in light of this provocative military ruckus jointly conducted with the South Korean authorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The US State Department said it is moving ahead with the planned summit in Singapore on June 12 despite the warning from Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Courtesy: Al Jazeera\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Pyongyang, May 16 (TNS): North Korea said it was suspending high-level talks with\u00a0South Korea\u00a0scheduled for Wednesday because of US-South Korean military exercises, which it said threatened warming ties on the divided peninsula. North Korea&#8217;s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) also cast doubt on whether next month&#8217;s summit between North Korean leader\u00a0Kim Jong-unand US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65710,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65708\/revisions\/65710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}