President Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday and addressed escalating aggression from North Korea.
“The prime minister is — I will say this — very, very focused on what is going on with respect to North Korea,” Trump said at a meeting with Abe at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.
Trump added that he and Abe agreed on the importance of “the problem and menace of North Korea,” according to a White House pool report.
The meeting comes after North Korea test fired what the Pentagon said was an intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday.
Abe thanked Trump for organizing a trilateral summit with Japan, South Korea and the United States on Thursday.
He added that the threat from North Korea “has become increasingly severe.”
Trump noted that he and Abe also discussed trade, where they are making “a lot of progress.”
