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People watch a TV screen in Tokyo showing a live broadcast from Florida of a news conference by U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on a missile launch by North Korea, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. North Korea reportedly fired a ballistic missile early Sunday in what would be its first such test of the year and an implicit challenge to Trump, who stood with the Japanese leader as Abe called the move &quot;absolutely intolerable.&quot; Details of the launch, including the type of missile, were scant. (Yoshitaka Sugawara/Kyodo News via AP)

The Latest: Chinese newspaper says address NKorea’s concerns

Associated Press

A man watches a TV news program showing a file footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with letters reading: &quot;The North fired a missile&quot; at the Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. North Korea reportedly fired a ballistic missile early Sunday in what would be its first such test of the year and an implicit challenge to President Donald Trump's new administration. Details of the launch, including the type of missile, were scant. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

UN Security Council meeting sought over NKorea missile test

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

An image of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears in a TV news report about the country's missile launch Sunday, an early test of the Trump administration. (Associated Press)

North Korea missile launch leaves Donald Trump cautious in response

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Asian Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

North Korea aggression must be halted

By Joseph R. DeTrani

People watch a TV screen in Tokyo showing a live broadcast from Florida of a news conference by U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on a missile launch by North Korea, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. North Korea reportedly fired a ballistic missile early Sunday in what would be its first such test of the year and an implicit challenge to Trump, who stood with the Japanese leader as Abe called the move &quot;absolutely intolerable.&quot; Details of the launch, including the type of missile, were scant. (Yoshitaka Sugawara/Kyodo News via AP)

The Latest: UN Security Council to meet on North Korea

Associated Press

A PAC-3 Patriot missile unit is deployed by the Japan Self-Defense Force against the North Korea's rocket launch at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. North Korea reportedly fired a ballistic missile early Sunday in what would be its first such test of the year and an implicit challenge to U.S, President Donald Trump, who was hosting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo in Florida. Details of the launch, including the type of missile, were scant. (Takuto Kaneko/Kyodo News via AP)

North Korea test fires ballistic missile; Japan, South Korea condemn launch

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks on a missile launch by North Korea at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. North Korea reportedly fired a ballistic missile early Sunday in what would be its first such test of the year and an implicit challenge to President Donald Trump's new administration. The missile is believed to have splashed down into the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. Suga told reporters the missile did not hit Japanese territorial seas. (Muneyoshi Someya/Kyodo News via AP)

The Latest: US assesses N. Korea missile was not ICBM

Associated Press

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. In an explicit warning to North Korea, U.S. Defense Secretary Mattis on Friday said any use of nuclear weapons by the North on the United States or its allies would be met with what he called an &quot;effective and overwhelming&quot; response. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)

North Korea launches more ballistic missiles

By L. Todd Wood

Canadian skaters train in Gangneung, South Korea, on Wednesday in a test event for the 2018 Olympics, which has been marred by political scandal. (Associated Press)

Pyeongchang Olympic prep overshadowed by political scandal

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

In this Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, photo, a man walks by the Olympic rings with a sign of 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. One year before the Olympics, the country is in political disarray, and winter sports are the last thing on many people’s minds. To say that South Koreans are distracted from what had been billed as a crowning sports achievement is an understatement. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Political scandal overshadows South Korea 2018 Olympic prep

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) greets North Korean leader Kim Jong-il during their meeting in Vladivostok, Russia, on Aug. 23, 2002. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

North Korea puts Russia atop friendly countries list

By L. Todd Wood

In this Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, photo, a man walks by the Olympic rings with a sign of 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. One year before the Olympics, the country is in political disarray, and winter sports are the last thing on many people’s minds. To say that South Koreans are distracted from what had been billed as a crowning sports achievement is an understatement. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Political scandal overshadows South Korea 2018 Olympic prep

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

North Korean economics 101: How much is a dollar worth?

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

A mock North Korea's Scud-B missile, center left, and South Korean missiles are displayed at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. In his first public remarks abroad as U.S. defense secretary, Jim Mattis is criticizing North Korea for provocative acts that require new consultations with Japan and South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Mattis warns NKorea against any attack on US or its allies

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2107 file photo, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford greets Defense Secretary Jimn Mattis at the Pentagon. By visiting Japan and South Korea on his first official overseas trip, Mattis is seeking to reinforce key alliances after President Donald Trump’s campaign-trail complaints that defense treaties disadvantaged the United States.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Pentagon boss makes 1st trip to Asia; NKorea plans unclear

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON and ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2016 file photo, TV screens show file footage of a North Korea's ballistic missile that North Korea claimed to have launched from underwater, at the Yongsan Electronic store in Seoul, South Korea. China has released a new list of items banned for export to North Korea, following a new round of United Nations sanctions and complaints from President Donald Trump that Beijing was not doing enough to pressure its communist neighbor. A statement from the Commerce Ministry late Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017, said the items included dual-use technologies that could aid the North's programs to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons as well as the missiles to deliver them. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

China releases new list of items banned for export to NKorea

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

China releases new list of items banned for export to NKorea

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

A South Korean man watches North Korean leader Kim Jong-un delivering his New Year's speech on a TV news program shown at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. North Korea's development of banned long-range missiles is in &quot;final stages,&quot; the country's leader Kim was quoted as saying in his New Year's message. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea says ICBM test could be imminent

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 16, 2016, file photo, American student Otto Warmbier, center, is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea announced Warmbier's detention Jan. 22, 2016, and the University of Virginia student from suburban Cincinnati was sentenced in March 2016 to 15 years in prison at hard labor after a televised confession that he tried to steal a propaganda banner. As President Donald Trump's administration takes office one year later, there's been little public word about what has happened to Warmbier. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin, File)

Little is known on status of US student held in North Korea

By DAN SEWELL - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 10, 2016, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves at parade participants at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea is marking Kim Jong Un's birthday Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017 in a decidedly low-key manner. Though the young leader's birthday is well-known throughout the country, it has yet to be celebrated with the kind of adulatory festivities that accompany the birthdays of his late grandfather and father. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

China’s boost to North Korean nukes

By James A. Lyons and Richard D. Fisher Jr.