However, an official told AP on condition of anonymity that the missile was a Scud variety which the USA calls a KN-17. His comments raise the prospect of trade talks with Japan, as well as a look into the current agreement with South Korea.
Trump's Indonesian business partner, billionaire Hary Tanoe, is an aspiring politician who has said he might run for president in 2019.
The remark was referring to the growing U.S. trade deficit derived from excessive barriers for USA businesses in the South Korean market. Pence was joined by American softball star Monica Abbott and Japanese player Akinori Iwamura.
While the USA may be out of the TPP, Japan isn't.
The Trump administration plans to "reform" the existing deal to level the playing field, he told the room of executives, most of whom represented USA companies doing business in South Korea.
"It can be interpreted as an overall review [of the USA government of its trade negotiations] in regard to the trade barrier report that is expected to be released at the end of June", Yoo Il-ho, who is also finance minister, said Wednesday. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence talks with members of the American Chamber of Commerce at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 18, 2017.
"We will not rest and will not relent until we obtain the objective of a denuclearized Korean Peninsula", he said.
The USS Carl Vinson was now heading north to the Western Pacific "as a prudent measure", according to the US Pacific Command.
To deter North Korea's nuclear tests, ballistic missile launches and other actions, it is imperative to display readiness to take even stern punitive actions.
Trump says U.S. relations with Russian Federation at 'all-time low'
Tillerson avoided giving specific details of how Assad would leave power, saying, "We leave that to the process going forward". Approximately 20 Syrian regime planes were destroyed in the USA strike, according to two U.S. senior military officials.
North Korea is seen as toning down its condemnation as its foreign ministry has yet to release its stance on Pence's warning, analysts said.
Pence on Wednesday also restated the US commitment to a peaceful resolution to the DPRK's missile and nuclear programs but intimated that it would be no pushover.
He also said that misinformation on a Navy strike group's whereabouts is not intentional.
There has been much discussion in Washington about Pence's short visit to the demilitarized zone, where he stood outside the Freedom House on the South Korean side of the border and stared into North Korea.
NY [U.S.A.], April 19 (ANI): United States Vice President Mike Pence has said North Korea was getting the message that it needed to walk away from its "reckless" nuclear activity.
Mr Pence, whose father served in the 1950-53 Korean War, said the United States would stand by its "iron-clad alliance" with South Korea.
Pence also said the US would protect freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, the sea lanes vital to global shipping where China has been staking claim to disputed territory.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has arrived in Japan for the second stop of a 10-day Asia tour.
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