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Breaking news on North Korean summit.
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BREAKING: North Korea official says country has no interest in summit with US if it's based on 'one-sided' demands to give up nuclear weapons
9:34 PM - May 15, 2018
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and tRump was going to be a gawd on foreign policy...... do what no other President could do..... 
followed by a Twitter Storm like the world has never seen.
The rest of us will have a great day knowing tRump just got played by Little Rocket Man. Not that we’re fans of LRM, but geeze Louise, the humiliation for trump and Pompeo is sweet. They will be burning the midnight oil at the White House working on plan B.
North Korea threatens to cancel Trump-Kim summit in Singapore
See: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/north-korea-threatens-to-cancel-trump-kim-summit-in-singapore-10238168
See: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/north-korea-threatens-to-cancel-trump-kim-summit-in-singapore-10238168
Pyongyang had "made clear on several occasions that precondition for denuclearisation is to put an end to anti-DPRK hostile policy and nuclear threats and blackmail of the United States", minister Kim said.
In the past, Pyongyang has demanded the withdrawal of the US troops stationed in the South to protect it from its neighbour, and an end to Washington's nuclear umbrella over its security ally.
The minister also blasted US National Security Advisor John Bolton's talk of a "Libyan model" for North Korean denuclearisation.
It was a "sinister move to impose on our dignified state the destiny of Libya or Iraq", he said. "I cannot suppress indignation at such moves of the US, and harbour doubt about the US sincerity."
In the past, Pyongyang has demanded the withdrawal of the US troops stationed in the South to protect it from its neighbour, and an end to Washington's nuclear umbrella over its security ally.
The minister also blasted US National Security Advisor John Bolton's talk of a "Libyan model" for North Korean denuclearisation.
It was a "sinister move to impose on our dignified state the destiny of Libya or Iraq", he said. "I cannot suppress indignation at such moves of the US, and harbour doubt about the US sincerity."
"The classic North Korean tightrope diplomacy between the US and China has begun."
US officials have repeatedly claimed credit for Washington's "maximum pressure" policy for bringing Pyongyang to the negotiating table.
Joshua Pollack of the Middlebury Institute for International Studies said Pyongyang had been irritated by the "triumphalist tone".
"The North Koreans aren't happy with what they're seeing and hearing," he said. "There is still a yawning gulf between expectations for diplomacy in Pyongyang and Washington, DC.
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US officials have repeatedly claimed credit for Washington's "maximum pressure" policy for bringing Pyongyang to the negotiating table.
Joshua Pollack of the Middlebury Institute for International Studies said Pyongyang had been irritated by the "triumphalist tone".
"The North Koreans aren't happy with what they're seeing and hearing," he said. "There is still a yawning gulf between expectations for diplomacy in Pyongyang and Washington, DC.
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