While Trump was hosting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at his golf resort in Florida, North Korea fired a ballistic missile. Its first provocation since Donald Trump was elected President of the U.S. and one that sets up a test for the new administration in Washington.
Trump, who dined with Abe at his Florida home Saturday evening, declined to respond to reporters’ questions about the missile test.
The missile was fired from a known test site in North Pyongan province in the west of the country, not far from the border with China, and flew over the Korean Peninsula and into the Sea of Japan.
The North Korean regime has declared a goal of producing an intercontinental missile that can deliver a nuclear payload to the United States and last year appeared to be making a concerted effort toward achieving that goal.