Trump cancels Kim summit amid North Korea 'hostility'

Posted on AllSides May 24th, 2018
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President Trump and Kim Jong Un

US President Donald Trump has cancelled a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, saying the world had "lost a great opportunity for lasting peace".

He said his decision was because of "tremendous anger and open hostility" in a recent North Korean statement.

The summit aimed at ridding the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons and would have been the first time a sitting US president met a North Korean leader.

But both sides have recently cast doubt on whether the talks would happen.

Mr Trump's announcement came just hours after...

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