US President Donald Trump took a moment at the White House Easter egg roll Monday to deliver a terse message to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un: "Got to behave".
The North conducted two nuclear tests and 24 ballistic missile tests last year, defying six UN Security Council sanctions resolutions banning any testing, and it has launched more missiles this year including a failed attempt at the weekend.
A nuclear war between North Korea and the US seems imminent.
Behind the heated rhetoric, Trump's strategy in the region looks somewhat similar to predecessor Barack Obama's - albeit with the added unpredictability of a new president who has shown he's willing to use force.
He signaled he was out of patience with China on North Korea, saying in a Financial Times interview published April 2 that the USA could act on its own to resolve the crisis over North Korea's nuclear program. Pressure on North Korea is crucial, the prime minister said.
"I think [Obama] left a more risky world", Barry Pavel told Fox News.
"No money goes to the North Korean administration". He not only referred to the leader of North Korea as "this gentleman" multiple times during the interview, but also implied that Kim is the same person as his father and possibly even his own grandfather.
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Pence struck a stern tone as he began talks with Abe and other Japanese leaders after arriving at a USA naval base from South Korea.
Mr Kim called the news conference to "categorically reject" the U.S. decision to hold an open meeting of the Security Council on April 28 on North Korea's nuclear programme, which is scheduled to be chaired by USA secretary of state Rex Tillerson.
Pence's trip will also include stops in Indonesia, Australia and a visit with US troops in Hawaii.
The advisor said there is still a problem to be solved before the THAAD battery is deployed and operational here and it will be decided by the next South Korean president.
Pence said the TPP was a "thing of the past" and Washington would not wait forever for results from the talks.
He also said it was reassuring that Mr Pence had not cited trade reforms as a pre-condition for the US-South Korea military alliance. "But we're going to redouble our efforts to bring diplomatic and economic pressure to bear on North Korea". The deployment of the anti-missile system Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) by the US in South Korea is progressing fast.
She said the Chinese have "gotten the message about increasing pressure and that they have said they want to increase cooperation with us and with the global community on this front". When asked about his next move, he said, "You'll see". "President Trump has made it clear that the patience of the United States and our allies in this region has run out and we want to see change".
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