The comment, laid out by North's Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee and reported Thursday on the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), was North Korea's first judgement of South Korea's new president, who took office on May 10.
"President Trump said he hopes to work closely with President Moon to resolve the North Korea nuclear issue and get a result".
The missile test came just four days after liberal politician Moon Jae-in was sworn in as South Korea's new president.
President Trump is open to exploring engagement with North Korea under certain conditions, South Korea's foreign ministry said. They mark a tonal departure from the Trump administration's months of saber rattling over North Korea.
"If this goes to a military solution it is going to be tragic on an unbelievable scale, and so our effort is to work with the United Nations, work with China, work with Japan, work with South Korea to try to find a way out of this situation", Mattis said at a news conference.
A top North Korean diplomat denied Friday Pyongyang's involvement in the recent WannaCry ransomware attack that crippled computers in more than 150 countries, calling such accusations "ridiculous".
"Relating to cyber attack, this linkage to DPRK is ridiculous", he said, adding that such allegations are part of the United States' hostile policies as the USA side is in the habit of mounting a loud anti-North Korean campaign each time something out of the ordinary happens.
Pyongyang celebrated the successful launch of its new missile with a massive parade, North Korean state media revealed Friday.
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Russian Federation is pushing to reduce North Korea's global isolation.
North Korea on Sunday test-fired what analysts say was its longest-range rocket yet as it accelerates efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the continental United States.
"The risky behavior by North Korea is not just a threat to the Korean Peninsula", he said, "it's a threat to Japan, it's a threat to China, it's a threat to Russian Federation - let me say that again... it's a threat to Russian Federation - it's a threat to the United States, it's a threat to the entire world".
North Korea is also known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Like China, it's making political investments in a country seen as a buffer state separating it from the U.S. military bases in South Korea.
Before an emergency meeting of the council Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley declared: "You either support North Korea or you don't, but you have to choose". -South Korea joint exercises, and that the drills should be suspended if North Korea agrees to end nuclear and missile provocations.
Kim has greatly accelerated the development and testing programs of all ranges of North Korea's missile systems. A U.S. State Department spokesman said the country would have to "cease all its illegal activities and aggressive behaviour in the region".
According to Yoon Hwang, professor of Northeast Asian studies at Sunmoon University, there are now 33 direct phone lines connecting North and South Korea via Panmunjom.
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