PYONGYANG - The North Korean government on Wednesday threatened to cancel the planned summit between Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump on June 12, 2018 in Singapore. North Korea also canceled high-level talks this week with South Korea. A joint military exercise between South Korea and the United States is said to be the trigger. "There are limits to showing good intentions and offering opportunities," the official North Korean news agency KCNA said.
North Korea's official KCNA news agency called the US-South Korean military exercise code 'Max Thunder', an air combat military exercise involving US combat aircraft and B-52 bombers is a 'provocation' that is incompatible with the spirit of peace on the peninsula Korea
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North Korea said the exercise between two allied air forces was an exercise for the invasion and became a deliberate military provocation. "The US should think twice about the fate of the North-US summit," KCNA continued. The US government said it would continue to plan a meeting in Singapore on June 12 next.
"The US will see what the North has said independently, and continue to coordinate closely with our allies," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement.
US State Department speaker Heather Nauert confirmed a joint US-South Korean military exercise on Tuesday (15/05/2018). "We have not heard anything from the government or the South Korean government that indicates we are not continuing to do this exercise," she said.
"We need to verify it to get additional information about it, but we will continue to plan our meetings next month," she added. Yonhap reported that joint military exercises of both countries were claimed as part of an annual routine training program. The two-week training that began last Friday involved 100 fighters, including eight F-22 fighter jets and a number of B-52 bomber planes, as well as F-15 fighter jets.
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