SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea canceled a high-level meeting Wednesday with South Korea and threatened also to call off a historic summit planned next month with the United States due to ongoing military exercises between the South and the U.S., South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Wednesday that she was “not aware” of the administration advocating a so-called Libya model, in which North Korea would quickly ship his nuclear weapons program to the U.S. North Korea had earlier attacked National Security Adviser John Bolton for trying “to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment” and threatened to walk away from the June 12 summit in Singapore. Sanders said President Donald Trump is "ready for very tough negotiations," adding that "if they want to meet, we'll be ready and if they don't that's OK." She said if there is no meeting, the U.S. would "continue with the campaign of maximum pressure" against the North.
North Korea cancels high-level talks with South Korea in protest of United States–South Korea joint military exercises.