People from new york and connecticut. Late night rescues, more of the same on the way. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine roman. Its 4 00 a. M. In the east and 11 00 a. M. In jerusalem. We have stories we are following from the korea peninsula. North korea declaring it will not be pushed into the corner on abandoning the nukes while threatening to cancel the summit with President Trump next month. The kim regime suspending talks with south korea scheduled for today. The reason u. S. south korea military drills already scheduled that north korea now considers provocative. Lets bring in ivan watson with the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, dave. People waking up here with some serious whiplash because after months of conciliatory messages and signals from north korea, suddenly a series of statements coming out on state media cancelling planned high level talks between north and south korea along the Demilitarized Zone today, arguing that joint u. S. south kore
But playing out while many here were still asleep. Thats right. It has been a very long day, kim jongun has just his motorcade just got into the airport, we have been following that. President trump left earlier in the day. They came, they saw, theyhook hands. They history just by having this meeting and, of course, they made promises now with the summit over, the focus on the future begins. For President Trump, part of that future includes stopping something the u. S. Has done for decades and somng tth hated for decades, joint military exercises with south korea. We will be stopping the war games, which will save us a tremendous amount of money unless and until we see the future negotiation is not going along like it should. But well be saving a tremendous a money, plus i think it is very provocative. Apparently that was a real surprise for south korea. The president s office there issuing a statement that said in part, we need to, quote, figure out President Trumps accurate meaning a
Jon the president said relationships matter and clearly that is the case here. Hes right in that regard. Relationships do matter. If there is no rapport or no a port things arent going to get done. But they cant be taken for granted. Relationships on their own are not enough. Its heartening to seat president speak about how they have a process and they have teams that are going to go at it. As discussed earlier, thats been sort of a greed to in the past and the followthrough hasnt come together. I hope at this stage kim gets it. And hopefully his concern about the relationship with President Trump will insure he has his teams dig in to negotiate with the American Teams. Jon the rapport developed that goes a long way toward reassuring him that he can do deals with this president without worrying about power base . Well, it looks like, President Trump is trying to wrap Good Relationship around kim to entice kim to stay at the table, and to move forward. And in reverse can kim leverage th
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