Kim, who has traded ever-more heightened rhetoric with Trump, did not specify what his response would be. South Korea, Russia and China all urged calm. French Sports Minister Laura Flessel said France’s team would not travel to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea if its security cannot be guaranteed. The 2018 Games are to be staged in Pyeongchang, just 80km from the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea, the world’s most heavily armed border. Asian stocks fell and the Japanese yen and Swiss franc gained on the possibility of a hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific.

Source: The Star September 23, 2017 00:56 UTC