The report said that North Korea would not have been able to advance its missile program to the levels seen today without Chinese assistance.
Pence arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday from South Korea where he started his 10-day trip to Asia on Sunday hours after the North Korean missile test. He called North Korea the most urgent and unsafe threat to the peace and security of the Asia-Pacific region.
One of the tests will reportedly involve an upgraded ship-to-air interceptor Standard Missile, which is aimed at shooting down intermediate-range North Korean missiles that pose a threat to US allies like South Korea and Japan.
Top officials in President Donald Trump's administration, speaking from thousands of miles apart, warned on Tuesday that North Korea's latest failed missile launch was a reckless act of provocation and assured allies in Asia that the United States was ready to work to achieve a peaceful denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Tensions between the two nations have been fraught throughout Trump's presidency of nearly three months. Standard policy - which calls for shooting down of a North Korean missile after launch if the trajectory is deemed to threaten South Korea, Japan or the U.S. - remains in place.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, on Wednesday said that he believes it is important for all countries involved in past talks on denuclearising the Korean Peninsula - South Korea, Japan, China, Russia and the United States - to help prevent the North's potential nuclear capability from becoming a threat to the global community.
The official was adamant that the USA is now not anticipating pre-emptive military action against North Korea.
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Most experts believe the regime is still at least several years from that goal, but the North does have conventional weapons with a proven range to put US troops and allies in the region at risk. For its part, China says the system's powerful radar is a threat to its security.
The most recent video comes amid growing tensions between the United States and North Korea.
The United States will counter any North Korean attack with an "overwhelming and effective" response, Vice President Mike Pence vowed Wednesday, as he stood on the deck of a massive American aircraft carrier docked in Japan. After employing a tough posture toward China on the campaign trail, President Trump is taking a softer tone as he tries to encourage the Chinese to put pressure on the North Korean nuclear program.
There was also a warning to China regarding the South China Sea, where Beijing has built reefs and islets into fortified islands capable of hosting military assets to bolster its claim to sovereignty over the sea. With no USA trade representative yet in office and other key positions still unfilled, such nitty-gritty discussions will have to come later.
"I think it's encouraging to see China continue to move forward and join us in this effort to control North Korea", White House press secretary Sean Spicer said at a regular briefing.
China's foreign minister recently likened the USA and North Korea to two speeding trains hurtling toward each other, an analogy that would seem to place China in the role of helpless bystander.
Wang told reporters that although USA officials have made clear that a military strike remains on the table, he believes that Washington would still prefer to de-escalate tensions through multisided talks.
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