{"id":362650,"date":"2018-05-24T19:03:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/president-donald-trump-cancels-north-korea-summit\/"},"modified":"2018-05-24T19:03:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T18:03:43","slug":"president-donald-trump-cancels-north-korea-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/president-donald-trump-cancels-north-korea-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump Cancels North Korea Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><strong>Cites \u2018anger and open hostility\u2019 in recent North Korean statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump on Thursday called off the planned summit with North Korea, writing in a letter to the country\u2019s leader that he didn\u2019t want to go forward with the meeting because of \u201ctremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump had hoped to use the meeting, set for June 12 in Singapore, to end North Korea\u2019s nuclear program in return for rolling back sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>In the run-up to the proposed summit, Mr. Trump had said that if North Korea cooperated and relinquished its nuclear weapons, the country\u2019s leader, Kim Jong Un, could expect that his regime would remain intact and the country would experience an economic revival.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0increasingly combative statements from North Korea\u2019s leadership\u00a0in recent days dimmed prospects for the summit, with White House aides saying this week they gave it a 50-50 chance of collapsing. Mr. Trump, eager for a deal that would rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons,\u00a0persevered in hopes of salvaging the summit. Some of his allies believed that if he were successful, he would merit a Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s rhetoric grew steadily more threatening. This week, North Korea\u2019s senior envoy for U.S. affairs threatened to cancel the summit and warned that the country could inflict on America an \u201cappalling tragedy that it has never experienced nor even imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his letter to Mr. Kim, Mr. Trump&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/president-donald-trump-cancels-north-korea-summit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cites \u2018anger and open hostility\u2019 in recent North Korean statement President Donald Trump on Thursday called off the planned summit with North Korea, writing in a letter to the country\u2019s leader that he didn\u2019t want to go forward with the meeting because of \u201ctremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement.\u201d Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362650","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\/362650","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\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}