Trump on North Korea: They 'Gotta Behave'

The missiles, three of which landed within 200 miles of Japan's coastline in its exclusive economic zone, were fired as part of a drill targeting American military assets in Japan by North Korea's Hwasong artillery units, North Korean state media KCNA said.

Vice President Mike Pence made an unannounced visit to the Demilitarized Zone at the border between North Korea and South Korea, which he called a "frontier of freedom", at the beginning of his first trip to the region in office. "We hope to achieve this objective through peaceable means".

"We certainly support the right of our allies and friends to ensure their interests are protected and their citizens defended against any possible attack".

One analyst, former British Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind, has said it was possible the United States may have caused the test to fail through a cyber attack. Lu said Beijing wanted to resume the multi-party negotiations that ended in stalemate in 2009 and suggested that United States plans to deploy a missile defence system in South Korea were damaging its relations with China. "Beijing has to step up and bring this reckless threat to the peace and stability of our region to an end".

China has appeared increasingly frustrated with its North Korean neighbor and ally, speaking out against its weapons tests and supporting United Nations sanctions, while repeatedly calling for talks.

"We believe there is more China can do in terms of sanctions and other economic efforts".

As an architect of the responsibility to protect doctrine, a political commitment made by all United Nations member states to prevent crimes against humanity, Canada ought to address the fact those crimes are being committed in North Korea, she said.

Earlier on Tuesday North Korea accused the United States of bringing the Korean Peninsula into "a risky situation in which a thermonuclear war may break out at any moment". But at the same time, McMaster said on "This Week" on ABC that "it's time for us to undertake all actions we can, short of a military option, to try to resolve this peacefully".

"The United States introducing in South Korea, on the Korean peninsula, the world's biggest hotspot, huge nuclear strategic assets, seriously threatening the peace and security of the peninsula and pushing it to the brink of war", Kim told reporters.

The Trump administration has signaled a more forceful USA stance toward North Korea's recent missile tests and threats, including a warning from Trump that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has "gotta behave".

And North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Han Song-Ryol told the BBC his country would continue to test missiles on "a weekly, monthly and yearly basis".

"If the U.S. is reckless enough to use military means it would mean from that very day, an all out war".

After 25 years of trying to deal patiently with North Korea over its nuclear program, Pence said, "all options are on the table" to deal with threat.

Japan had a $69 billion trade surplus with the United States a year ago, the U.S. Treasury Department said, expressing concern over what it called the "persistence" of the imbalance.

North Korean leader Kim Jung-Un had hinted that a test might take place.

"As far as another nuclear test is concerned... it is something that our headquarters decided", Ryong added. It is something that our headquarters decided. "At the time and at the place where our headquarters deemed necessary it will take place".

Shortly after, North Korea issued a forceful response to the deployment of a USA naval strike group, including the 97,000-ton aircraft carrier, the USS Carl Vinson, to the region April 10, saying it would counter "reckless acts of aggression" with "whatever methods the U.S. wants to take".

North Korea backed down and refrained from testing a nuclear bomb over the weekend, but has vowed to test a new missile every week.

Trump himself appeared to reinforce the message at the White House, replying "Gotta behave" when a CNN reporter asked what message he had for North Korean leader Kin Jong Un.