"Threatening and destabilizing actions only increase the North Korean regime’s isolation in the region," President Donald Trump says. | Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images Trump on North Korea's missile launch: 'All options are on the table'

North Korea's most recent ballistic missile test "has signaled its contempt" for its neighbors and the international community, President Donald Trump said in a statement Tuesday morning, reiterating his threat that "all options are on the table."

"The world has received North Korea’s latest message loud and clear: This regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behavior," the president said in the statement. "Threatening and destabilizing 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."


U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley also said Tuesday that “something serious has to happen.”

“We are going to talk about what else is left to do to North Korea. No country should have missiles flying over them like those 130 million people in Japan. It's unacceptable. They have violated every single U.N. Security Council resolution that we've had,” she said. “What we hope is that China and Russia continues to work with us like they have in the past on North Korea. But I think enough is enough.”

The U.S. and Japan “are totally at one” in their positions on North Korea following its most recent test of a ballistic missile, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said after a 40-minute phone call with Trump, according to an Associated Press report. A White House readout of the call said Trump and Abe "agreed that North Korea poses a grave and growing direct threat to the United States, Japan and the Republic of Korea, as well as to countries around the world" and are "committed to increasing pressure on North Korea, and doing their utmost to convince the international community to do the same."

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North Korea’s test early Tuesday sent an intermediate-range missile over Japan, a provocative launch that side-stepped U.S. threats by aiming away from Guam, the U.S. territory in the Pacific that the North Korean government recently threatened to attack with an “enveloping fire.” Trump, too, has ratcheted up his rhetoric against North Korea, threatening it with “fire and fury like the world has never seen” if it continues its provocative actions.

Abe’s statement said he and Trump were in “total agreement” that North Korea’s latest launch should prompt an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council.

“Japan's and the U.S. positions are totally at one,” the Japanese prime minister said. “President Trump expressed his strong commitment to defending Japan, saying he was 100 percent with Japan as an ally."

Madeline Conway contributed reporting.

