Pyongyang declared, that cancel previously scheduled meeting with South Korean "partners" at the highest level. North Korea mark, that the reason for that became the US-South Korean military exercises. We are talking about military maneuvers Max Thunder on the Korean Peninsula.
The meeting was to be held in paragraph talks in the demilitarized zone. It was planned to discuss issues of cooperation by the International Committee of Red Cross, as well as meetings of family members, who found themselves on different sides of the border. This meeting has been scheduled for today.
We also learned that, the official Pyongyang threatened to cancel the DPRK-US summit, to be held 12 of June in Singapore. Recall, that at this summit meeting is scheduled between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Ynom. The reason is also called the military exercises on the Korean Peninsula, that Pyongyang considers provocative.
The State Department said, now check, how reliable the information about the readiness of Pyongyang to cancel the meeting with Donald Trump.
The official representative of the department said Heather Nauert, that through official channels is no document on the abolition of the US State Department meeting has not yet received.
Nauert:
We will continue to move in the direction of the summit.
