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The North gave two reasons for its ire: long-scheduled military exercises... and America's insistence that it must unilaterally forswear nuclear arms-the very condition on which America agreed to talks in the first place.

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북한은 분노의 두 가지 이유를 대었다: 오래전부터 계획된 군사훈련과 미국이 핵무기를 일방적으로 폐기해야 한다는 미국의 주장-미국이 애초에 회담에 합의한 바로 그 조건-이다.

그만두다, 포기하다; 그만두겠다고[포기하겠다고] 맹세하다

Asia May 17th 2018 edition Forewarned on disarmament North Korea reminds the world why past peace talks have failed It says it is having second thoughts about giving up nuclear weapons

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THE sun smiled down on the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas on April 27th, the day Moon Jae-in, South Korea’s president, met Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, for a strikingly warm summit at which they agreed on the “complete denuclearisation” of the peninsula. On May 16th the weather was very different, and so was the news. Thunderstorms battered Seoul as the North announced that it was cancelling high-level talks with the South to which it had agreed barely 24 hours earlier. It also threatened to pull out of a summit between Mr Kim and Donald Trump, America’s president, scheduled to take place in Singapore on June 12th.

The North gave two reasons for its ire: long-scheduled military exercises between America and South Korea, to which it had previously acquiesced (although it may have been surprised by the involvement of Stealth fighters, which could be used in a “decapitation” strike, and B-52s, which can carry nuclear bombs), and America’s insistence that it must unilaterally forswear nuclear arms—the very condition on which America agreed to talks in the first place. Statements relayed by the official news agency made it clear that economic assistance would not be sufficient recompense for nuclear disarmament, as Mr Kim seemed to suggest only last week.

North Korea reminds the world why past peace talks have failedIt says it is having second thoughts about giving up nuclear weaponswww.economist.com