Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently said the USA has "spoken enough" after the latest such test, and according to NBC, other options may include deploying nukes to South Korea or assassinating North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
"It has been a typical tactic of the U.S.to send a strong political message by attacking other countries using advanced warplanes and cruise missiles", Xinhua wrote in reference to prior USA strikes in Libya and Sudan, the Times wrote.
Such closer cooperation could include tighter enforcement of worldwide trade sanctions - nearly all of North Korea's trade passes through China - along with a crackdown on the North's ability to use the global financial system and heavy punishments or exclusion from the financial world for those who deal with the North.
He has threatened to act unilaterally if China - North Korea's main ally and benefactor - fails to do more to curb its neighbor's activities.
Wu Dawei, the special representative of the Chinese government for Korean Peninsula Affairs, will arrive for a five-day visit in Seoul on Monday, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
One man who used to work for Kim Jong-un's regime before defecting told ITV News nothing will persuade him to abandon his nuclear ambitions.
Although overshadowed by the USA strike on Syria, the meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping showed that confrontation between the two superpowers was not inevitable and that both sides appeared to be "equally enthusiastic about the constructive relationship they have promised to cultivate", according to Chinese state-run media.
"President Xi clearly understands, and - and I think agrees, that the situation has intensified and has reached a certain level of threat that action has to be taken".
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday that he and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on the importance of close coordination over North Korean issues as Pyongyang continues its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.
In Tokyo, the feasibility of USA military action was downplayed, while South Korea said the focus remained on deterrence and readiness.
He warned however, that it is from North Korea that the potential greatest threat to world peace comes.
In Tokyo, the feasibility of United States military action was downplayed.
South Korean and United States forces are also involved in annual joint military drills that run until the end of April.
The Chinese commentaries, however, made no mention of the US missile strike on a Syrian government air base, which overshadowed the summit. But six rounds of sanctions since the country's first nuclear test in 2006 have failed to dissuade the North from pursuing what it insists are defensive weapons.
"In terms of North Korea", he added, "we've been very clear that our objective is a denuclearized Korea peninsula".
China has agreed to "strong" new measures to punish North Korea if it carries out a nuclear test, Seoul said Monday after the U.S. signalled it may act to shut down Pyongyang's weapons program.
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