North Korea accused the United States of "fraud" and "plotting" against it following the cancellation of Secretary of State Mike Pompao's visit to Pyongyang.
In the government newspaper Rodong Sinmun, the Hermit kingdom alleged that special units of the United States military stationed in Japan staged an aerial exercise aimed at "penetrating Pyongyang." A spokesman for the US Embassy in Seoul said he had no information about the exercise mentioned in the paper.