US President Donald Trump warned today that 'all options are on the table' after North Korea last night fired a ballistic missile over Japan's northern Hokkaido island into the sea.
The test, one of the most provocative ever from the reclusive state, came as US and South Korean forces conduct annual military exercises on the peninsula, angering North Korea which sees them as a preparation for invasion.
North Korea has conducted dozens of ballistic missile tests under young leader Kim Jong Un, but firing projectiles over mainland Japan is rare.
Trump said the world had received North Korea’s latest message "loud and clear".
"This regime has signalled its contempt for its neighbours, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behaviour," Trump said in a statement released by the White House.
"Threatening and destabilising actions only increase the North Korean regime’s isolation in the region and among all nations of the world. All options are on the table."
Trump spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the two agreed that North Korea "poses a grave and growing direct threat to the United States, Japan, and the Republic...
