10 things you need to know today: May 23, 2018

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Trump says North Korea summit 'may not work out.'
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1. Trump warns North Korea summit could be delayed or canceled

President Trump said Tuesday that there was a "very substantial chance" that his planned June 12 meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could be delayed, or even canceled. "You never know about deals," Trump said. "I've made a lot of deals. You never really know." Trump's statement deepened doubts about the potentially historic summit in Singapore. North Korea recently scrapped a meeting with South Korea, and threatened to cancel the Trump-Kim meeting over joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises and harsh statements by Trump aides. Pyongyang had committed to denuclearization and is closing its nuclear test site, but now says it won't give up its nuclear weapons. Harry Kazianis of the Center for the National Interest said it appears "the summit's dead" because "the two sides are too far apart."

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.