U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in Gyeongju, South Korea, Wednesday.

Donald Trump is playing down the chances of talks with Prime Minister Mark Carney at a South Korean summit this week after he broke off trade talks with Canada and threatened to hike punitive tariffs on Canadian imports by 10 per cent.

Both leaders are in South Korea for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and were scheduled to attend the same dinner Wednesday.

But in a post on the social media site Truth Social Wednesday, Mr. Trump said he wasn’t in the Asian country to see Mr. Carney.

“For those that are asking, we didn’t come to South Korea to see Canada!” he wrote from the city of Gyeongju where he had meetings planned with world leaders including the presidents of South Korea and China.

Mr. Trump

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