Kim Jong Un Slams Biden For Discussing North Korea's Missile Tests At G20, Warns US Of 'Fiercer' Military Response

Days after President Joe Biden and the leaders of Japan and South Korea vowed a unified response to North Korea's threatening nuclear and ballistic missile programs, Kim Jong Un fired a ballistic missile and warned the U.S. and its allies of a "fiercer" military response. 

What Happened: This was the latest in a record-breaking blitz of launches as Pyongyang on Thursday fired an "unidentified ballistic missile" in the Sea of Japan, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said, according to Agence France-Presse.

This came days after Biden, on his trip to Cambodia, discussed Kim's recent provocations and potential nuclear test program and announced the three-way partnership to contain North Korea. Later at the G20 summit, Biden also discussed the agenda with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, telling him Beijing is obliged to attempt to talk Pyongyang out of conducting its seventh nuclear test.

“We’d be more up in the face of China. But it wouldn’t be because of China, it’d be because of what was going on in North Korea,” Biden had told Xi.

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North Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Choe Son Hui slammed Biden's discussion, saying they were "bringing the situation on the Korean peninsula to an unpredictable phase."

"The U.S. ‘bolstered offer of extended deterrence and the daily-increasing military activities of the allied forces around the Korean peninsula are foolish acts," Choe said in a statement released by the state news agency.

The more U.S. works to strengthen its security alliance with Asian allies, "the fiercer the DPRK's military counteraction will be," he added.

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