President Donald Trump says after North Korea's latest failed rocket launch that communist leader Kim Jong‑Un will eventually develop better missiles, and "they cannot allow it to happen".
In a taped interview broadcast Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation, the president would not discuss the possibility of military action, saying: "It is a chess game”.
Separately, Trump's national security adviser, Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, said North Korea's most recent missile test represents "open defiance of the international community".
He said North Korea poses "a grave threat", not just to the US and its Asian allies, but also to China.
McMaster said it is important "for all of us to confront this regime, this regime that is pursuing the weaponisation of a missile with a nuclear weapon".
Source: CNN
