Kim Jong-un leaves US in dark by cancelling nuclear meetings

President Trump’s efforts to neutralise the nuclear threat posed by North Korea are in danger of running aground as the communist state cancels key meetings and returns to its belligerent rhetoric.

He emerged from an unprecedented summit meeting with Kim Jong-un last month to assure the world that “everybody can now feel much safer . . . there is no longer a nuclear threat from North



Korea”.

However, US diplomats have since made it known that their counterparts in Pyongyang have refused to engage in meaningful discussions. American intelligence officials have told The Washington Post that the North is working to conceal key aspects of its nuclear programme and that a missile-engine testing facility that Mr Trump said would be destroyed remains intact.