WASHINGTON CANCELS TRIP
North Korea accuses US of ‘hatching criminal plot’
North Korea’s state-controlled newspaper on Sunday accused the US of "double-dealing" and "hatching a criminal plot" against Pyongyang, after Washington abruptly cancelled a visit by secretary of state Mike Pompeo. Negotiations have been all but deadlocked since US President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore in June. Pompeo has pressed for tangible steps towards North Korea’s abandonment of its nuclear arsenal while Pyongyang is demanding that Washington first make concessions of its own. North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper said US special units based in Japan were staging an air drill aimed at "the infiltration into Pyongyang", citing a South Korean media outlet. "Such acts prove that the US is hatching a criminal plot to unleash a war against the DPRK and commit a crime which deserves merciless divine punishment in case the US fails in the scenario of the DPRK’s unjust and brigandish denuclearisation first," the paper said. "We cannot but ta...
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