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There were a lot of things on the North Korean issue over the weekend. First Saturday morning, President Moon Jae-in and US President Trump talked about 30 minutes on the phone, and that afternoon North Korea said it had done a very serious test at the Dongchang-ri satellite launch site that it would permanently close. Analyzed by an intercontinental ballistic missile or ICBM test, Trump overnight sent a powerful warning that North Korea could lose virtually everything if it acted hostilely.

Correspondent Jeong Jun-hyung reports in Washington.

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Trump said in a tweet, "Kim Jong-eun is really clever," and said, "If you act in a hostile way, there's so much to lose, you'll lose virtually everything."

Kim added that he does not want to nullify his special relationship with the US president and does not want to intervene in the US presidential election next year.

President Trump's statement that he could lose everything is interpreted as a strong warning to North Korea that it had done a very serious test at the satellite launch site in the West Sea.

Although it did not specifically mention hostile behavior, it appears to refer to the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile test and a nuclear test.

As North Korea's long-term missile test and nuclear test halted, it seems to have made it clear that provocations that could politically hurt his reelection will not stop.

President Trump also sent warnings to North Korea yesterday.

[Trump / US President (local time yesterday): I would be surprised if North Korea makes a hostile provocation. I have a good relationship with Chairman Kim. He knows I will have an election soon. I don't think he wants to intervene in the election.]

In today's tweet, the word "good relationship" with Mr. Kim, which I always emphasized, has been omitted, and President Trump seems to be feeling the situation so seriously.