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		</div><p>US President Donald Trump has warned North Korea it &#8220;Gotta behave&#8221;, a day after its failed missile test.</p>
<p>It came after his vice-president Mike Pence visited the Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) to warn America&#8217;s &#8220;era of strategic patience is over&#8221;.</p>
<p>North Korea&#8217;s deputy UN ambassador, meanwhile, accused the United States of turning the Korean peninsula into &#8220;the world&#8217;s biggest hotspot&#8221; and creating &#8220;a dangerous situation in which a thermonuclear war may break out at any moment&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Pence&#8217;s visit to the tense DMZ dividing North and South Korea came at the start of a 10-day trip to Asia and underscored US commitment. It allowed the vice-president to gaze at North Korean soldiers afar and stare directly across a border marked by razor wire.</p>
<p>As the bomber jacket-clad vice-president was briefed near the military demarcation line, two North Korean soldiers watched from a short distance away, one taking multiple photographs of the American visitor.</p>
<p>Mr Pence told reporters Mr Trump is hopeful China would use its &#8220;extraordinary levers&#8221; to pressure the North to abandon its weapons programme, a day after the North&#8217;s failed missile test launch.</p>
<p>But Mr Pence expressed impatience with the unwillingness of the North to move towards ridding itself of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.</p>
<p>Pointing to the quarter-century since the United States first confronted North Korea over its attempts to build nuclear weapons, he said a period of patience had followed.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;But the era of strategic patience is over,&#8221;</i> he declared. <i>&#8220;President Trump has made it clear that the patience of the United States and our allies in this region has run out and we want to see change.</p>
<p>&#8220;We want to see North Korea abandon its reckless path of the development of nuclear weapons, and also its continual use and testing of ballistic missiles is unacceptable.&#8221;</i></p>
<figure id="attachment_110735" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-110735" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/MikepenceApril2017_large.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/MikepenceApril2017_large.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="325" class="size-full wp-image-110735" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-110735" class="wp-caption-text">US Vice President Mike Pence</figcaption></figure>
<p>Mr Trump himself appeared to reinforce the message at the White House, replying &#8220;Gotta behave&#8221; when a reporter asked what message he had for North Korean leader Kin Jong Un.</p>
<p>In New York, the North&#8217;s deputy UN ambassador Kim In Ryong said US-South Korean military exercises being staged now are the largest-ever &#8220;aggressive war drill&#8221;. He said his country &#8220;is ready to react to any mode of war desired by the US&#8221;.</p>
<p>In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he hopes there would be <i>&#8220;no unilateral actions like those we saw recently in Syria and that the US will follow the line that president Trump repeatedly voiced during the election campaign&#8221;.</i></p>
<p>China made a plea for a return to negotiations,with Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang saying tensions need to be eased on the Korean Peninsula to bring the escalating dispute to a peaceful resolution.</p>
<p>Mr Lu said Beijing wants to resume the multi-party negotiations that ended in stalemate in 2009 and suggested US plans to deploy a missile defence system in South Korea are damaging its relations with China.</p>
<p>Later on Monday, Mr Pence reiterated in a joint statement alongside South Korean acting president Hwang Kyo-ahn that &#8220;all options are on the table&#8221; and said any use of nuclear weapons by Pyongyang would be met with &#8220;an overwhelming and effective response&#8221;. He said the American commitment to South Korea is &#8220;iron-clad and immutable&#8221;.</p>
<p>Noting Mr Trump&#8217;s recent military actions in Syria and Afghanistan, Mr Pence said: <i>&#8220;North Korea would do well not to test his resolve.&#8221;</i></p>
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