Washington: Us president Donald Trump on Thursday called off a planned historic summit with North Korean leader kim JONG-UN ,even after north Korea followed through on a pledge to blow up tunnels at its nuclear test side. Referring to a schedule June 12 meeting with kim in Singapore, Trump said in a letter to the North Korean leader "sadly based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it would be inappropriate, at this time , to have this long planned meeting " Trump called it " a missed opportunity" and said he still hoped to meet kim someday . The North Korean mission to the United Nations did not immediately responds to a request for comment on Trump's cancellation of the summit. US stocks dropped sharply on the news, with the benchmark S&P 500 Index falling more than half a percent in about 10 minutes. Investors turned to US Treasury debt as a safe alternatives , driving the yield on the 10 year...
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