SEOUL — North Korea said on Tuesday it was suspending "high-level" talks with South Korea scheduled for Wednesday over military drills its southern neighbour has scheduled with the US. It was not clear whether the suspension would have any broader impact on South Korea-North Korea talks or a planned meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump on June 12 in Singapore. That summit until recently had looked impossible given the insults and threats the two leaders exchanged over the past year as tension rose over North Korea’s development of nuclear missiles. Heather Nauert, spokeswoman for the US State Department said it had no information from North Korea about threat to cancel the summit and that it continued to plan for that meeting. "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 develo...
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