- North Korea's senior envoy for American affairs has renewed a threat to call off an upcoming summit and warned that Pyongyang could "make the U.S. taste an appalling tragedy it has neither experienced nor even imagined."
- Choe Son Hui also also referenced a "nuclear-to-nuclear showdown" and dubbed Vice President Mike Pence "a political dummy" for his comparisons to Libya's denuclearization.
- KOSPI -0.2% to 2,466.
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