North Korea suspends high level talks with South Korea over military drills with USA(United States)

North Korea has announced it is suspending scheduled talks with the South due to US-South Korean military drills, which it called a “provocation”.

North Korea’s state-run Central News Agency (KCNA) said the so-called Max Thunder drills between the South Korean and US Air Force were simply a “rehearsal for [an] invasion of the North and a provocation amid warming inter-Korean ties”.

“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 development on the Korean Peninsula,” KCNA said.

The suspension comes just one month before the first scheduled meeting between Mr Kim and the US president, Donald Trump, on 12 June.The Singapore summit will allow both leaders to discuss North Korea halting development of its nuclear weapons programme.

Ms Nauert confirmed that North Korea had not said anything to the US about cancelling the Singapore summit as yet.

Pyongyang had previously threatened to strike the US territory of Guam or Hawaii, and even the West Coast of the US with intercontinental ballistic missiles.