PYONGYANG THREATENS TO CANCEL SUMMIT: S. KOREA

SEOUL North Korea cancelled a high-level meeting Wednesday with South Korea and threatened also to call off a historic summit planned next month with the United States because of military exercises between the South and the U.S., South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.

The two Koreas were set to hold a meeting later Wednesday at a border truce village to discuss setting up military and Red Cross talks aimed at reducing border tension and restarting reunions between families separated by the Korean War.

But hours before the meeting was to take place, Pyongyang cancelled it and also questioned whether next month’s talks between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump would happen, Yonhap reported.