{"id":361445,"date":"2018-05-16T15:14:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/north-korea-summit-is-still-on\/"},"modified":"2018-05-16T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:14:35","slug":"north-korea-summit-is-still-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/north-korea-summit-is-still-on\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Summit Is Still On"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t over-read what is going on here\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>May 16, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senator Rand Paul explained Tuesday that reports of North Korea threatening to cancel the imminent peace summit talks with President Trump are being \u2018over-read\u2019, and that the negotiations should go ahead unhindered.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reports emerged yesterday suggesting that North Korea had suspended talks with the South over military drills being carried out in conjunction with the US.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David P Gelles (@gelles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gelles\/status\/996468998119321640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaketapper\/status\/996474227468496896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The talks between the Koreas were set to resume Wednesday. KCNA said the Max Thunder 2018 air combat drill was against the Panmunjom declaration \u2013 signed last month by N and S Korea. KCNA labelled the Max Thunder drills a \u201cdeliberate provocation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaketapper\/status\/996474644709376000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">North Korean state news: the US should carefully consider the fate of the North Korea- US summit,  in view of what it calls \u201cprovocative military disturbances with South Korea&#8221; (the joint US\/S Korea military exercise)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaketapper\/status\/996474864369270789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This quickly escalated into <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/north-korea-threatens-withdraw-summit-trump-report\/story?id=55184033\">reports of North Korea threatening to scrap the talks with Trump<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/05\/15\/north-korea-says-it-rejects-libya-style-denuclearization-reuters.html\">refusing to denuclearize<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department, however, said it was unaware of any problems:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statedeptspox?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@statedeptspox<\/a> says &#8220;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&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/rand-paul-north-korea-summit-is-still-on.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t over-read what is going on here\u201d Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comMay 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 \u2018over-read\u2019, and that the negotiations should go ahead unhindered. Reports emerged yesterday suggesting that North Korea had suspended talks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-361445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}