North Korea’s state-controlled newspaper on Sunday accused the United States of “double-dealing” and “hatching a criminal plot” against Pyongyang, after Washington abruptly canceled 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. 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. The US military spokesman in South Korea was not immediately available to comment. In part to reassure North Korea, Trump canceled or delayed joint military drills with South Korea, but smaller exercises continue.

Source: Egypt Independent August 26, 2018 11:37 UTC