The cancellation of the US-North Korea Summit by US President Donald Trump had a global impact on the international stock markets yesterday. AlphaNewsLive presents the chronicle of the latest effort to normalize Western relations with North Korea.
July 2017: North Korea successfully tests ballistic missiles, saying they can strike Alaska.
August 2017: After announcing that he will not seek a diplomatic approach from his predecessor, the new US President Donald Trump launches a verbal attack against Kim Jong Un. He threatens to launch "fire and fury" against Kim's regime during a press conference. The North Korean leader describes Trump as "mentally disturbed".
September 2017: Trump from the podium of the United Nations General Assembly declares that he will "completely destroy" North Korea in the event of an attack on the United States or its allies. Referring to Kim, he describes him as a "little rocket man".
March 2018: A White House spokeswoman told reporters that the United States would expect "concrete steps" toward denuclearizing North Korea before the US president accepts any invitation to a meeting. The same day, the White House confirms that Trump has accepted an invitation to meet with Kim and that the two governments are planning such a meeting. It was the first meeting between a US president and a North Korean leader since the founding of the country after World War II.
April 27, 2017: The first summit of South and North Korea leaders takes place after 10 years in the demilitarized zone that separates the two countries.
April 31-May 1: CIA chief Mike Pompeo, soon to become US Secretary of State, pays a secret visit to North Korea over Easter. Trump states that "the meeting went very smoothly" saying that a good relationship is being established.
May 11: After the release of three American nationals detained in North Korea for more than a year, Trump announces that he will meet with Kim in Singapore. "We will both try to make a very special moment for world peace," Trump wrote.
May 15: North Korea abruptly cut ties with South Korea and announced that it might withdraw from the summit as a result of US-South Korean military exercises. He warns that the United States should also make careful moves in the run-up to the summit and avoid provocative joint exercises with South Korea.
May 17: Donald Trump tries to reassure North Korea over remarks by his Security Adviser that the United States is pursuing the Libyan model on the issue of North Korea's nuclear program. Trump said that is not the model being sought in the case of North Korea.
May 21: US Vice President Mike Pence poses for Libya model. "There was a discussion last week about the Libyan model as the President made it clear as you know that this model will be followed in case we do not have an agreement
May 24: North Korea's Undersecretary of State threatens the United States with a "terrible tragedy that no one has ever experienced or imagined" and called the US Vice President "politically stupid."
The same day, US President Donald Trump wrote a letter to the North Korean leader announcing the cancellation of the summit between the two and at the same time making statements that his country and its allies remain ready if the North Korean leader does anything. stupid and reckless ”action.
