Breaking on CNN:
Seismic activity detected near North Korean nuclear site; cause is unknown
By Joe Sterling and Stella Ko, CNN
Updated 11:00 AM ET, Sat September 23, 2017
Story highlights
- USGS: "This event occurred in the area of the previous North Korean nuclear tests"
- Nuclear watchdog group cites two seismic events but says neither appear man-made
(CNN)Seismic activity was detected Saturday near the site of North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear site, but it is not known whether a nuclear test caused the development.
The first sign Pyongyang has conducted a nuclear test is usually seismic activity. North Korea has one nuclear test site -- Punggye-ri.
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake struck at 4:29 a.m. ET Saturday 22 kilometers (more than 13 miles) east-northeast of Sungjibaegam, North Korea, the US Geological Survey said. The depth of the earthquake was 5 kilometers (3.1 miles).
War of words
Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho spoke to reporters in New York during the UN General Assembly shortly after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made an unprecedented televised statement, accusing Trump of being "mentally deranged."
In a rare direct statement, Kim said that Trump would "pay dearly" for the threats, and that North Korea "will consider with seriousness exercising of a corresponding, highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history."
"I am now thinking hard about what response he could have expected when he allowed such eccentric words to trip off his tongue," Kim said. "I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire."
The forceful rhetoric from Pyongyang came after Trump threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea in a speech Tuesday to the General Assembly. Trump tweeted Friday that Kim was "obviously a madman" who would be "tested like never before."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/23/asia/n...ity/index.html
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