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Trump Warns North Korea's Kim on Hostile Actions

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday warned North Korean
   leader Kim Jong Un against hostile military actions, even as Pyongyang
   announced it had conducted "a very important test" at a satellite
   launching site.

   "Kim Jong Un is too smart and has far too much to lose, everything
   actually, if he acts in a hostile way," Trump said on Twitter.

   "He signed a strong Denuclearization Agreement with me in Singapore,"
   the U.S. leader said. "He does not want to void his special
   relationship with the President of the United States or interfere with
   the U.S. Presidential Election in November. North Korea, under the
   leadership of Kim Jong Un, has tremendous economic potential, but it
   must denuclearize as promised. NATO, China, Russia, Japan, and the
   entire world is unified on this issue!"

   Trump's remarks came after North Korea's state media said the test was
   conducted Saturday at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station 7, a
   long-range rocket launching site station in Tongch'ang-ri, a part of
   North Pyongang Province located near the border of China.

   The government-run Korean Central News Agency said the results "will
   have an important effect on changing the strategic position of the DPRK
   once again in the near future," it added, using an acronym for North
   Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. But
   the report did not say what kind of test was performed at the site.

   The North Korean announcement came a day after CNN reported that Planet
   Labs, a commercial satellite imagery company, had detected activity at
   the Sohae Satellite Launching Station, including the image of a large
   shipping container.

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