President Donald Trump has played down the significance of recent North Korean missile launches, saying in Japan that the tests did not bother him in comments that appeared to undermine John Bolton, his national security adviser.
“North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me,” Mr Trump tweeted on the second day of his four-day state visit to Japan, which will include talks about North Korea.
His comment came a day after Mr Bolton told reporters in Tokyo that there was “no doubt” that two sets of recent North Korean missile launches had breached UN Security Council resolutions banning ballistic missile tests.