North Korean leader's desire for peace a deciding factor, says Donald Trump

The missile fired on Sunday blew up nearly immediately, the Pentagon said.

Despite the barrage of harsh rhetoric, analysts from both sides of the political spectrum agree that Trump's policy remains strikingly similar to Obama's "strategic patience", and that the options for dealing with Pyongyang are limited.

In an interview in Wisconsin, the United States president complained that his predecessors should have dealt with North Korea's pursuit of a nuclear arsenal, but said he was in the position now where he was "going to have to do something about it".

Instead, North Korea tested a missile Sunday, which was said to have failed, provoking more calls for the country to cease its hostile acts.

Nonetheless, the parade highlighted an intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, the kind of missile that could reach USA cities.

President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said on April 21 that troop movements inside Russian Federation are "not a public matter".

That direction was not evident from North Korean leadership, as state-run TV highlighted a propaganda video showing missile strikes leaving the USA in flames. In February it banned imports of North Korean coal and reports in Chinese media have raised the possibility of restricting shipments of oil to the isolated North if the tests continue.

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He leveled sharp criticism at the US and South Korea for conducting the war games of unprecedented scope and scale and said they could entail dire consequences for peace in the region.

The North has warned of a nuclear strike against the United States if provoked.

North Korea's vice foreign minister Han Song Ryol told BBC that missiles will be tested weekly. "T$3 hat didn't work because the Chinese took that position and let the North Koreans have time to develop nukes and missiles", he said. Then, after North Korea tested an atomic bomb in 2006, the United States pressed the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on North Korea. "We're building our military rapidly", said Trump. North Korea routinely labels such exercises preparations for invasion.

And what about other world powers?

Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said tensions need to be eased on the Korean Peninsula to bring the escalating dispute to a peaceful resolution.

Said Abe: "It goes without saying that it is a matter of paramount importance for us to seek diplomatic efforts as well peaceable settlements of the issue".

Mr Pence is in Tokyo to discuss trade with Taro Aso, Japan's deputy prime minister.