A leading British newspaper has raised suspicions that North Korea is using a house on the outskirts of London to finance its nuclear weapons program and raise slush funds for its leader Kim Jong-un.
Kim is the third American citizen to have been arrested in North Korea over the last 16 months.
Abe said they agreed to strongly urge North Korea, which continues to make risky provocations, to show self-restraint.
"What's only laid for aggressors is dead bodies", the newspaper said.
Speaking in Sydney on Saturday, US Vice President Mike Pence said the American aircraft carrier Carl Vinson would arrive in the Sea of Japan, bordering the Korean Peninsula, "in a matter of days".
The Prime Minister stressed that North Korea's nuclear and missile development is "a grave security threat to Japan and the worldwide community".
Nikki Haley spoke on several television networks, praising China's involvement in trying to pressure North Korea to cease missile testing.
China is increasingly anxious the situation may spin out of control, leading to war and a chaotic collapse of its isolated and poverty-struck neighbor.
China "hopes that all relevant sides exercise restraint, and avoid doing anything to worsen the tense situation", the Chinese ministry said in a statement, paraphrasing Xi.
"Only if all parties take their responsibilities and work together can the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue be solved".
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It has marked similar events in the past with nuclear tests or missile launches.
And they have become increasingly impatient with China to do more to rein in North Korea.
The Chinese President has called for restraint in the rapidly escalating North Korean weapons crisis.
"The routine exercise is created to improve combined maritime response and defense capabilities, increase combined maneuvering proficiency, and ensure maritime forces remain ready to defend the region when called upon", a USA statement released by Rear Adm. Jim Kilby, the commander of the carrier strike group, noted. "However, we will respond to threats to us or our allies accordingly".
"Trump is basically shifting the burden of dealing with North Korea to China", said Tong Zhao, a fellow at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy in Beijing.
The top members of North Korea's command structure believe that nuclear bombs are the only things that can guarantee the country's survival. "In cases where USA citizens are reported to be detained in North Korea, we work with the Swedish Embassy, which serves as the United States' Protecting Power in North Korea".
Pyongyang insists it needs a powerful arsenal - including atomic weapons - to protect itself from what it says is the ever-present threat of invasion by hostile United States forces.
The statement and the US-Japan exercises come amid indications North Korea may be preparing to test a nuclear weapon or long-range missile.
In this April 15, 2017, photo, soldiers carrying rockets march across Kim Il Sung Square during a military parade to celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea.
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