This picture from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) taken on Aug. 29, 2017, and released on Aug. 30 shows North Korea’s intermediate-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 lifting off from the launching pad at an undisclosed location near Pyongyang. North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
on Tuesday after 74 days without a missile launch.
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President Donald Trump said nothing has changed in how the U.S. government will deal with North Korea in light of the communist regime’s ballistic missile launch two hours earlier.
“We will take care of that situation,” said President Trump in an impromptu press briefing Tuesday afternoon. “We have a very serious approach and nothing changed.”
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Matthew Little is a senior editor with Epoch Health.