- Sputnik International
Asia
Find top stories and features from Asia and the Pacific region. Keep updated on major political stories and analyses from Asia and the Pacific. All you want to know about China, Japan, North and South Korea, India and Pakistan, Southeast Asia and Oceania.

Pyongyang Cancels Anti-US Rally - Reports

© REUTERS / Kevin Lim/The Straits TimesU.S. President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore June 12, 2018.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore June 12, 2018. - Sputnik International
Subscribe
Amid warming relations between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump following a June 12 summit in Singapore, Pyongyang has cancelled its yearly “anti-US imperialism” rally.

According to AP, North Korean officials have not spoken on the record about the decision, but the news outlet said Monday that it received confirmation that the event has been called off.

July 27 is remembered as the day the Korean Armistice Agreement in 1953 ushered in a ceasefire to the Korean War. In North Korea, the day is celebrated as "Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War."

Last year, some 100,000 North Koreans gathered at the Victorious War Museum in Pyongyang to commemorate the armistice signing.

"We get along very well," Trump said at a Thursday cabinet meeting of his relationship with Kim. Noting that North Korea could have a tremendous future, Trump said, "but we want to have it denuclearized, and that's what's happening."

Late last Friday, the Pentagon announced that it was "indefinitely" suspending annual military training exercises with the South Korean military dubbed Ulchi Freedom Guardian "to support implementing the outcomes of the Singapore Summit." Pyongyang has long maintained that the exercise was a dress rehearsal for an invasion of the North, and, therefore viewed the drills as a provocation.

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un look at each others before signing documents that acknowledge the progress of the talks and pledge to keep momentum going, after their summit at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore June 12, 2018 - Sputnik International
Asia
North Korea Sends Soldiers’ Remains Home, Calls on US to Honor Agreements

Sunday, North Korea repatriated the remains of hundreds of American troops who died in the North during the war. "The path to thoroughly implementing the North-US joint statement is the path to securing the common interests of the peoples of the two countries, and peace, security and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula and in the world," said DPRK Today Sunday, Yonhap News reported.

Newsfeed
0
To participate in the discussion
log in or register
loader
Chats
Заголовок открываемого материала