{"id":145697,"date":"2018-05-24T09:16:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T14:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=145697"},"modified":"2018-05-24T11:09:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T16:09:01","slug":"trump-cancels-summit-with-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=145697","title":{"rendered":"Trump cancels summit with North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"ng-binding\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-144670\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TrumpPres-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TrumpPres-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TrumpPres-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TrumpPres.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump is canceling the planned June 12 summit with North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong Un, citing the &#8220;tremendous anger and open hostility&#8221; in a recent statement from North Korea.Trump says in a letter to Kim released Thursday by the White House that based on the statement, he felt it was &#8220;inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting.&#8221;The president says the North Koreans talk about their nuclear capabilities, &#8220;but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But in a statement, the North Korean government had referred to Vice President Mike Pence as a &#8220;political dummy&#8221; and said it is just as ready to meet in a nuclear confrontation as at the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump tells Kim &#8220;please do not hesitate to call me or write&#8221; should he change his mind about a one-on-one meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Trump says the U.S. military is &#8220;ready if necessary&#8221; to respond to &#8220;foolish or reckless acts&#8221; by North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also says he&#8217;s been in touch with South Korea and Japan and that both allies are willing to bear much of the financial burden &#8220;if such an unfortunate situation is forced upon us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump is canceling the planned June 12 summit with North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong Un, citing the &#8220;tremendous anger and open hostility&#8221; in a recent statement from North Korea.Trump says in a letter to Kim released Thursday by the White House that based on the statement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145719,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145697\/revisions\/145719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}