<p>President Donald Trump announced on Twitter on Friday that he directed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to cancel his scheduled trip to North Korea.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I have asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to go to North Korea, at this time, because I feel we are not making sufficient progress with respect to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula&hellip;&rdquo; tweeted Trump. ;</p>
<p>According to a source, Trump called off the trip while in a meeting with Pompeo, who was named the new special representative for North Korea. ;</p>
<p>Pomeo was supposed to leave on Sunday for the scheduled visit. ; ;</p>
<p>Back in June, Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore which was deemed a success. Since then the President has expressed frustration with the progress of negotiations with North Korea regarding denuclearization. ;</p>
<p>Trump also placed blame on China. ;</p>
<p>&#8220;Because of our much tougher Trading stance with China, I do not believe they are helping with the process of denuclearization as they once were (despite the UN Sanctions which are in place),&#8221; tweeted Trump. ;</p>
<p>But Trump did say that a visit in the &#8220;near future&#8221; isn&#8217;t off the table completely. ;</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;Secretary Pompeo looks forward to going to North Korea in the near future, most likely after our Trading relationship with China is resolved. In the meantime I would like to send my warmest regards and respect to Chairman Kim. I look forward to seeing him soon!&#8221; tweeted Trump. ;</p>
<p>Following the Trump administration&#8217;s decision to cancel Pompeo&#8217;s trip, a North Korea&#8217;s state-controlled newspaper blasted the U.S. for &#8220;double dealing&#8221; and &#8220;hatching a criminal plot.&#8221;</p>
<p>The <em>Rodong Sinmun</em> newspaper claimed that the U.S. forces in Japan are staging an air drill aimed at &#8220;the infiltration into Pyongyang.&#8221; ;</p>
<p>&#8220;Such acts prove that the U.S. is hatching a criminal plot to unleash a war against the DPRK and commit a crime which deserves merciless divine punishment in case the U.S. fails in the scenario of the DPRK&#8217;s unjust and brigandish denuclearization first,&#8221; writes the paper. &#8220;We cannot but take a serious note of the double-dealing attitudes of the U.S. as it is busy staging secret drills involving man-killing special units while having a dialogue with a smile on its face.&#8221;</p>
<p>Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed that North Korea is still developing nuclear weapons. ;</p>
<p>North Korea insists that with a peace agreement, the country will abandon its nuclear weapon program. While the U.S. wants to see North Korea completely halt the program before agreeing to a peace deal and other concessions. Trump has delayed joint military drills with South Korea in an effort to ease North Korea.</p>
<p><strong>Author&#8217;s note:</strong> Unfortunately this was expected. North Korea is always testing our boundaries. North Korean papers have accused the U.S. of preparing an invasion and it&#8217;s not wrong, we have said that from the beginning. But until the Trump Administration sees that the denuclearization process is done, or at least is irrevocably underway, then a peace agreement can be signed. ;</p>