After President Trump casted doubts over the upcoming meeting with the North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un on June 12th, in response to the recent toughened rhetoric from North Korea, where they canceled an inter-Korean preparatory meeting citing South’s involvement in the massive military drill with the United States and threatened to cancel the meeting with president Trump over some harsh comments from U.S. national security advisor John Bolton, who suggested that the Libyan model of denuclearization might be used in case of North Korea, North Korea’s Vice foreign minister said that the fate of the summit between Kim and Trump lies with the United States.
While welcoming South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in to the White House, President Trump told reporters that there is a substantial chance that the upcoming meeting with the North might not happen. He said, “There are certain conditions that we want and I think we'll get those conditions and if we don't we don't have the meeting…..You go into deals that are 100% certain - it doesn't happen. You go into deals that have no chance and it happens and, sometimes, happens easily."
North’s vice foreign minister condemned the recent interview of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in which he compared North Korea to Libya and said that North Korea would neither beg nor take up the trouble to persuade the United States if it doesn’t want to sit together for talks.
Still, it is very likely that the historic meeting would take place on June 12th.
