Canceling was part of keeping them honest, to make them stop threatening, and get with the program. And it works. At any rate, it shows them you are not a pushover who will give them everything (like Obama). Their economy is in a desperate state with sanctions, they need this far more than we do.
Via Townhall:
North Korea has responded to President Trump’s letter to Kim Jong Un in which the U.S. president alerted him that he had canceled the summit between the two nations. The meeting was scheduled for June 12 in Singapore, but following some aggressive rhetoric and more nuclear threats from North Korea, Trump nixed it.
In a new statement, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan told the U.S. they are still willing to talk “at any time, at any format.” More from the Associated Press: