South Korea Wants To Mediate Doubts Over North Korea - U.S. Summit

Reuters: South Korea offers to mediate to clear doubts over North Korea-U.S. summit

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Thursday it intends to play the role of mediator after North Korea threatened to pull out of a summit with the United States aimed at the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.

North Korea on Wednesday said it might not attend the June 12 summit in Singapore if the United States continued to demand it unilaterally abandon its nuclear arsenal, which it has developed in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions to counter perceived U.S. hostility.

Doubts over the summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump arose on Wednesday when Pyongyang denounced U.S.-South Korean military exercises as a provocation and called off high-level talks with Seoul.

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WNU Editor: To mediate what? The problem is not North Korea - U.S. .... the problem is North Korea - South Korea .... North Korea turns on 'incompetent' South (BBC).

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