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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 said during a 30-minute phone call, North Korea said that it did a very serious test at the Dongchang-ri satellite launch site that it would close permanently. Allegedly an intercontinental ballistic missile test, an ICBM test, overnight, Trump issued a powerful warning that North Korea could lose virtually everything if it acted hostilely.

First news, correspondent Jeong Jun-hyung 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, it is said that the relationship with Kim, which I always emphasized, is not good enough, and that President Trump feels that much more serious.