News / World by Press Association 08/11/2018, 6:14 am FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmail Send us a story Sign up to our Daily newsletter South Korea’s foreign minister quoted US officials as saying that it was North Korea that cancelled a meeting this week between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a senior North Korean official on nuclear issues. North Korea sent a notification to Washington to call off the meeting aimed at discussing the North’s denuclearisation and setting up a second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said on Thursday. Ms Kang provided no reason on why North Korea cancelled the meeting in New York. Ms Kang told politicians she planned to discuss the matter with Mr Pompeo over the phone. South Korea’s presidential office earlier said that the meeting’s postponement would not affect the momentum of talks between Washington and Pyongyang. “We were notified by the United States that North Korea explained that (the meeting) should be postponed because both sides have busy schedules,” Ms Kang said. “I think it would be excessive to read too much into the postponement of the meeting.” Mr Trump told reporters at the White House…