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Of course North Korea has no interest in denuclearizing

By Siraj Hashmi
Published May 16, 2018 2:16pm ET
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Of course North Korea has no interest in denuclearizing
People watch a TV screen showing file footage of U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 16, 2018. North Korea on Wednesday threatened to scrap a historic summit next month between its leader, Kim Jong Un, and U.S. President Donald Trump, saying it has no interest in a "one-sided" affair meant to pressure Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons. The signs read: " Trying to test Trump." | (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Kim Jong Un really took us for a ride there, didn’t he?

On Tuesday, a North Korean regime official declared that the communist country would not agree to “unilateral nuclear abandonment,” raising doubts about the likelihood of the U.S.-North Korea summit taking place in Singapore in June.

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