“I wouldn’t over-read what is going on here”
Steve Watson
Prison Planet.com
May 16, 2018
Senator Rand Paul explained Tuesday that reports of North Korea threatening to cancel the imminent peace summit talks with President Trump are being ‘over-read’, and that the negotiations should go ahead unhindered.
Reports emerged yesterday suggesting that North Korea had suspended talks with the South over military drills being carried out in conjunction with the US.
BREAKING: North Korea suspends talks with South Korea over S.Korea-U.S military drills, North Korean state news agency KCNA reports. Talks between the Koreas were set to resume Wednesday.
— David P Gelles (@gelles) May 15, 2018
BREAKING — North Korea has suspended talks with South Korea, because of a military drill conducted by South Korea and the US, North Korean state news agency KCNA reports.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 15, 2018
The talks between the Koreas were set to resume Wednesday. KCNA said the Max Thunder 2018 air combat drill was against the Panmunjom declaration – signed last month by N and S Korea. KCNA labelled the Max Thunder drills a “deliberate provocation”.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 15, 2018
North Korean state news: the US should carefully consider the fate of the North Korea- US summit, in view of what it calls “provocative military disturbances with South Korea” (the joint US/S Korea military exercise)
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 15, 2018
This quickly escalated into reports of North Korea threatening to scrap the talks with Trump and refusing to denuclearize.
The State Department, however, said it was unaware of any problems:
.@statedeptspox says “We have not heard anything from that government or the government of South Korea to indicate that we would not continue conducting these exercises or that we would not continue planning for our meeting between President…