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DemocratSinceBirth

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Tue May 15, 2018, 03:38 PM May 2018

BREAKING North Korea pulls out of high level talks with South Korea- Says U S causing a ruckus !! [View all]

PER SOUTH KOREAN NEWS

Developing...


UPDATE :

North Korea suspends high level talks with South Korea over military drills with US

North Korea has announced it is suspending scheduled talks with South Korea due to US-South Korean military drills, which it called a "provocation".

North Korea's state-run Central News Agency (KCNA) said that the so-called 'Max Thunder' drills between the South Korean and US Air Force are simply a "rehearsal for [an] invasion of the North and a provocation amid warming inter-Korean ties," Yonhap News Agency reported.

"This exercise targeting us, which is being carried out across South Korea, is a flagrant challenge to the Panmunjom Declaration and an intentional military provocation running counter to the positive political development on the Korean Peninsula. The [US] will also have to undertake careful deliberations about the fate of the planned North Korea-US summit in light of this provocative military ruckus jointly conducted with the South Korean authorities," KCNA said.

The talks, scheduled for 16 May, were meant as a follow-up to the historic and opulent ceremony during which North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in signed the Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity, and Unification of the Korean Peninsula during the Inter-Korean Summit on 27 April. The signing took place in the in the neutral territory between the two Koreas, the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), and officially ended the war that began when the north and south split in a battle over communism and democracy that began on 25 June 1950.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/north-south-korea-suspends-high-level-talks-planned-us-military-drills-kim-jong-un-moon-jae-in-a8353261.html
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What the shit!? triron May 2018 #1
Over American-South Korean joint military exercises. DemocratSinceBirth May 2018 #6
Probably orangecrush May 2018 #50
Will play out like this... SayItLoud May 2018 #55
What a shock MissB May 2018 #2
+1 sandensea May 2018 #11
Stop saying that jmowreader May 2018 #32
I disagree. Bush just had more social skills, that's all. sandensea May 2018 #37
I agree. Mr.Bill May 2018 #46
Give him time orangecrush May 2018 #51
He won't live long enough to come anywhere near what the Bush family has done. Mr.Bill May 2018 #54
Worse. And he's just getting started. SammyWinstonJack May 2018 #47
+++ agree, no diplomacy processes in the Trump admin. Kim Jong Un-Trump meeting was never iluvtennis May 2018 #39
This is a surprise to whom? eom OldHippieChick May 2018 #3
Second verse same as the 764 others grantcart May 2018 #21
And Cheeto keeps slobbering to OldHippieChick May 2018 #24
Oh the slobbering is just beginning. Remember the old saw grantcart May 2018 #34
+1! KPN May 2018 #40
But but but my Nobel Prize! sputters Shithead Croney May 2018 #4
lol Trump's Nobel prize 0rganism May 2018 #23
LOL! Just what I was thinking! smirkymonkey May 2018 #57
Good going RUMP! Now, lets just wait for RUMP's tweets now! Ha!! nt SWBTATTReg May 2018 #5
only maybe. imho, just typical pre-negotiation porturing unblock May 2018 #7
"Threatens to" not "pulls". nt Guy Whitey Corngood May 2018 #8
Neither "Threatens to" or "pulls" - North Korea suspended talks with South Korea Brother Buzz May 2018 #15
So they actually suspended talks? And are Guy Whitey Corngood May 2018 #22
That's the way I'm seeing it Brother Buzz May 2018 #26
As supposedly unpredictable the Tangerine Hemorrhoid is. He sure a shit is pretty damn predictable.n Guy Whitey Corngood May 2018 #36
I'm going to guess it's a negotiating tactic. NCTraveler May 2018 #9
Sure its "strategy" - but fact is... there should have been no Joint Exercise at this time. Civic Justice May 2018 #18
I didn't argue for a joint exercise. nt NCTraveler May 2018 #19
I did not assume that you did Civic Justice May 2018 #58
Does that cancel the photo op of NK destroying its missile silo? no_hypocrisy May 2018 #10
No need for South Korea when they're talking directly to Shithole dalton99a May 2018 #12
The US learned about it from THE MEDIA! BigmanPigman May 2018 #13
They are playing us and if they have any sense of humor at all they are laughing their.... TreasonousBastard May 2018 #14
We don't need no stinkin' diplomacy, we have bombs! Canoe52 May 2018 #16
Wrong attitude.... WE NEED DIPLOMACY, AS DOES THE WORLD NEED DIPLOMACY Civic Justice May 2018 #59
Wtf, google the definition of sarcasm for gods sake! Canoe52 May 2018 #60
Oops. Poor Don. That Nobel is slipping away. Vinca May 2018 #17
Nobel Prize....Nobel Prize RandySF May 2018 #20
. Squinch May 2018 #25
Bait and switch...I was always irritated with Pres. Carter for involving himself with North Korea Demsrule86 May 2018 #27
Was there a press conf. today? Ilsa May 2018 #28
Does anyone else read "Panmunjom Declaration" as "Grand Panjandrum"? ProudLib72 May 2018 #29
Panmunjoke is more like it. n/t DFW May 2018 #35
Like this: tblue37 May 2018 #30
+++ yep And US can't say much cuz Iran lunasun May 2018 #38
I'm shocked. Shocked and surprised. RockRaven May 2018 #31
Blink Freethinker65 May 2018 #33
Well who could have predicted this turn of events?!?!..../NT sdfernando May 2018 #41
Way too early for Trumpezoids to pat themselves on the back, or to do oasis May 2018 #42
Maybe this is a wily subterfuge to make "PeaceFaker 45" look good. Here he comes to save the day! C Moon May 2018 #43
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (nt) Paladin May 2018 #44
Sooooo Trump's gonna start 2 wars? paparush May 2018 #45
Kim is trying to see how much leverage he has on trump drray23 May 2018 #48
darn & tRump just had a special solid gold shelf installed for his peace prize elmac May 2018 #49
Let's see if Rump "supports our troops" orangecrush May 2018 #52
Who's gonna clean up the nuclear fallout... lame54 May 2018 #56
Good Dopers_Greed May 2018 #53
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