National Public Radio:
President Trump has called off a highly anticipated June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
“Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long planned meeting.”
Trump’s decision comes hours after North Korean Vice-Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, in remarks carried on the country’s official KCNA news service, said it would not “beg the U.S. for dialogue” and warned that it could make Washington “taste an appalling tragedy.”
Hui also called Vice President Pence a “political dummy” and characterized recent comments he made suggesting that North Korea could end up like Libya if doesn’t come to the bargaining table as “ignorant and stupid.”
