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Interesting to get china's perspective in all of this in terms of the way the containment from north korea be will go. north korea has engaged in a series of nuclear provocations over past year. in january 2016, it said it conducted an underground nuclear test claiming it successfully detonated the country's first hydrogen bomb. >> the regime test fired a number you have ballistic missiles the most successful taking place back in june. the missile fell be 400 kilometers. in august, pyongyang had its most successful test fire of a submarine launched vessel. that flew be 500 kilometers. >>? se...

Welcome back to "newsroom." recapping news this hour, north korea has test fired another ballistic missile. sources report it was launched from that nation's north. it traveled a little more than 300 miles, some 500 kilometers and landed in the japan known as the east sea. a u.s. military spokesman says it was either a medium or intermediate range ballistic missile. >> the latest provocation from pyongyang has been condemned by south korea and japan. shinzo abe called it absolutely intolerable. he was speak alongside u.s. presidentnal florida. mr. trump added that the u.s. backed jan "100%." >...

Again fairly predictable they would do something like this. what are they waiting for in terms of a reaction? is it more waiting to see what the u.s. reaction would be to be this? be. >> well, i would say dprk's testing of the missile this time is another violation of the united nations security council resolution. and china together with all the other major stakeholders would condemn. this violation from the chinese perspective, china is joining in full steam the sanctions imposed on dprk by the united nations security council. and i don't think china will spare any efforts in copying and imp...

Tougher measures. and they'll theral probably be a u.n. resolution at some point. but if we step back from all of that which is, you know, set theater as i say, what strikes me about it is, the north koreans test, they test a missile. it's not a test of an icbm, an intercontinental ballistic missile like they threatened to do. this strikes me and based on what i know about friends having conversations with north koreans as pushing a little bit but not too much and sort of waiting to see what president trump will do. so i think we have a bit of tactical play here by the north koreans. >> so you...

Security council resolutions. you heard the prime minister echoing that call tonight. he also said ta during the summit with president trump, trump assured him that the united states will always come to japan's defense. and said that the president and he completely share the view that we are going to promote further cooperation between the two nations and also we are going to further reinforce our alliance. after the prime minister spoke, president trump took to the podium and delivered a very brief statement saying thank you very much, mr. prime minister. i just want everyone, everybody to un...