North Korean media stepped up their rhetorical attacks on South Korea and its joint military exercises with the United States, warning Tuesday that a budding detente could be in danger. That first changed last week, when it lashed out against the manoeuvres, cut high-level contacts with Seoul and threatened to "reconsider" the Trump summit. South Korean soldiers take down a propaganda loudspeakers on the border with North Korea on May 1, 2018 in Paju, South Korea. There has been no indication that North Korea will cancel plans to dismantle the test site, an important gesture of goodwill. (Korea Summit Press Pool/AFP/Getty Images)But it did ban South Korean journalists from the trip to the nuclear site.

Source: CBC News May 22, 2018 23:37 UTC