Monday's North Korean news conference at the United Nations.
The new and inexperienced United States president has indicated he will not allow North Korea to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the western US.
A North Korean deputy foreign minister also told the BBC Monday that the country would continue to carry out missile tests "every weekly, monthly, and yearly basis".
The remark coincided with reports that China's attempts to get North Korea to even meet its nuclear envoy have been ignored.
The US military can also use its fleet of ballistic missile submarines and long-range strategic bombers such as B-2 and B-52 to deploy its arsenal of more than 7,000 nuclear warheads to any target around the world.
Appearing later with South Korea's acting president, Hwang Kyo-ahn, the vice president pointed to Trump's recent military actions in Syria and Afghanistan as signs that the new administration would not shrink from acting against the North. The US sees North Korea as a rogue state that threatens the American homeland and America's allies, such as South Korea, Japan, Australia or China.
The warnings started at the demilitarized zone dividing the Koreas, where Mr. Pence vowed action to achieve a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula. Lu says China wants to resume multi-party negotiations that ended in stalemate in 2009. "We have to be honest about where our trade relationship is falling short", said Pence, adding the Trump administration would work with businesses on reforms.
The missile that North Korea tested over the weekend is being called a KN-17 by USA intelligence, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.
John Schilling, a weapons expert with the 38 North monitoring group, said the launch failure was indicative of a new systems test.
He leveled sharp criticism at the United States and South Korea for conducting the war games of unprecedented scope and scale and said they could entail dire consequences for peace in the region.
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"The South Korean public in general has come out and said, 'We support these more hardline measures to deal with these problems, '" he says.
Pence arrived in Tokyo from South Korea, where he assured leaders of the "iron-clad" alliance with the United States.
"We need to apply pressure on North Korea so they seriously respond to a dialogue" with the worldwide community, he said, urging China and Russian Federation to play more constructive roles on the issue. Kim says both of the frontrunners have suggested they would take a more conciliatory line with North Korea. "We are definitely not seeking conflict or regime change, but we are committed to defending our people and our allies, should it be necessary".
Pence's economic discussions in Tokyo will be closely watched to see how hard a line Washington is prepared to take on trade.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters over the weekend that Japan might push ahead with a revised, 11-nation version of the TPP despite the USA rejection of the trade accord.
Spicer said China, after Mr Trump's recent meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the president's Florida Mar-a-Lago estate, has been applying pressure including reducing the quantity of coal it accepts from North Korea.
He warned Pyongyang "would do well not to test" the resolve of Mr Trump.
U.S. officials say tougher sanctions could include an oil embargo, a global ban on North Korea's airline, intercepting cargo ships and punishing Chinese banks doing business with Pyongyang.
A senior North Korean official then accused the United States of bringing the countries to the brink of thermonuclear war.
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