Hours later, at a rally in Arizona, President Trump asserted that North Korea was "learning to respect us".
The order to create more solid-fuel rocket engines is significant because the fuel is built into these weapons and they are ready to fire at any moment.
"Solid fuel missiles are much faster to deploy. a solid fuel missile is always fueled so all they have to do is drive it to the place they want to launch it", he said.
A Democratic lawmaker urged the Pentagon Monday to boost its missile defense system before North Korea develops the capability to strike the US mainland with nuclear weapons. "Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!"
The editorials follow remarks by both President Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, suggesting optimism at the approach North Korea is taking to the bilateral relationship.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits the Chemical Material Institute of the Academy of Defence Science.
A series of threats followed from both sides, and while the rhetoric has since eased, the United States and South Korea this week kicked off their annual Ulchi Freedom Guardian military drills, which the North always condemns as dress rehearsals for invasion. "And maybe, probably not, but maybe something positive can come about". "Many people would like to see the two countries involved to seek dialogue and diplomatic means rather than throw threats to each other involving innocent lives, like the people of Guam", Crisostomo said. Last night, the President told supporters: "I respect the fact that I believe he is starting to respect us".
"I respect that fact very much".
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Kim Jong-un ordered a boost in production for solid-fuel rocket engines and rocket warhead tips.
His comments echoed those of his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson who earlier in the day acknowledged Pyongyang's recent "restraint" in not carrying out fresh nuclear or missile tests in response to tough new United Nations sanctions.
"I am pleased to see that the regime in Pyongyang has certainly demonstrated some level of restraint that we've not seen in the past", Tillerson told a press briefing on Tuesday, adding that the USA needed to see more restraint before allowing for meaningful dialogue to take place.
Most Western experts accept that North Korea is close to putting a nuclear warhead on an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can reach the continental United States, but this has not been independently verified.
After four years in power, Kim Jong Un says his country can produce a hydrogen bomb, the first step toward a nuclear weapon that could target the United States.
"Through today's report, the North is touting its capability of manufacturing Hwasong-14 missile's re-entry vehicles and boasting of its preparedness to launch a submarine launched ballistic missile with a larger calibre, Pukguksong-3", Lee Chun-Geun of South Korea's Science and Technology Policy Institute said.
Washington and Seoul, which will each deploy tens of thousands of troops for the exercise, maintain it is a defensive manoeuvre and a response to North Korean aggression.
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