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Trump canceled the June 12 summit just hours after North Korea destroyed its nuclear testing site in the presence of worldwide journalists, as promised during the talks.
"I was very much looking forward to being there with you", Trump wrote in a letter to Kim on Thursday that toggled between amicable and menacing.
"Hopefully positive things will be taking place with respect to the future of North Korea", he said.
"You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used", the president wrote.
For a good analysis of just how complicated the Korean security situation can be, there's "A comprehensive history of North Korea's nuclear program", just published by Siegfried Hecker, Robert Carlin, and Elliot Serbin of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University.
Choe, who has been involved in diplomatic interactions with the United States over the past decade, said his country would not "beg" for dialogue and warned of a "nuclear showdown" if diplomacy failed.
In a letter to Kim, Trump announced he would not go ahead with the high-stakes meeting set for June 12 in Singapore, and would instead pursue Washington's campaign of "maximum pressure" through sanctions on Pyongyang.
The President also hinted, in an interview with his favourite show Fox and Friends, that a staged process of denuclearisation may be necessary to make any deal workable.
President Donald Trump on Thursday said the USA military stands "ready if necessary" following his cancellation of a planned summit with Kim Jong Un, ramping up already tense rhetoric exchanged between Washington and Pyongyang. North Korea's state media stressed that those two tunnels could have been used to carry out more tests at any time, countering reports that the Punggye-ri site had been rendered largely unusable after the six tests already conducted there. "I hope that Kim Jong Un will ultimately do what is right, not only for himself, but perhaps most importantly what's right for his people, who are suffering greatly and needlessly", the president said.
"It's possible that the existing summit could take place, or a summit at some later date".
"We'll see what happens", Trump said. We were informed that the meeting was requested by North Korea, but that to us is totally irrelevant.
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An aunt, Sylvia Pritchett, said in a Facebook post she has "a broken heart and a soul that just can't process all this right now". Another measure under consideration was setting up a system to monitor social media for warning signs of an attack.
Pompeo read out Trump's letters to legislators in Washington shortly after it was released publicly.
He insisted Trump had been prepared for the summit.
It's unsurprising, given the speed at which the relationship had appeared to change with North Korea, that we've quickly reverted to something more closely resembling the norm.
That was the "last straw" leading to Trump's decision to cancel the Singapore summit, blaming Kim's "tremendous anger and open hostility", Reuters reported citing the White House.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in Washington on Wednesday, had earlier urged the United States to attend the summit, saying "if you want peace, now is the time" at a joint press conference with Pompeo. Trump sought laughs from his base by dismissing the North Korean leader as "Little Rocket Man", and Kim responded by calling Trump a "dotard". Japan had been wary of the outcome of any summit, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has declined to meet with Kim.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in called top aides to an emergency meeting late Thursday in Seoul to discuss the developments.
"South Korea is also likely to be angered, and the Alliance will take a hit".
"Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the establishment of permanent peace are historic tasks that can neither be abandoned nor delayed", he added.
Moon had brokered the opening for summit with his invitation for North Korea to attend the Winter Olympics in January.
The gap between these perceptions seems to have been papered over by Chung and his boss, President Moon Jae-in, who desperately needed U.S. buy-in for his own peace agenda with the North to have a chance at succeeding.
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