Image: Olivier Douliery via PA Images Image: Olivier Douliery via PA Images US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump has warned that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un had “everything” to lose through hostility towards the United States, after Pyongyang said it had carried out a major new weapons test.
Trump and Kim engaged in months of mutual insults and threats of devastation in 2017, sending tensions soaring before a diplomatic rapprochement the following year. Separately, interviewed on the CBS TV news program Face the Nation, US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien was asked whether North Korea was preparing to restart nuclear tests.“Kim Jong Un promised to denuclearise North Korea,” O’Brien said. “And we expect him to live up to the promise he made at the summit in Singapore. And we hope he’ll do so.”
“The two leaders shared an assessment that the current situation on the Korean peninsula is grave,” said South Korean presidential spokeswoman Ko Min-jung, adding that Trump had requested the call. Trump indicated that military action was still possible when he was asked about Pyongyang on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Britain last week.
Sohae, on North Korea’s northwest coast, is ostensibly a facility designed for putting satellites into orbit.
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