MESSAGE UNCLEAR: Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan is not reading too much into North Korea’s announcement that it tested a “new-type tactical guided weapon” Thursday. Speaking to reporters while meeting with Albania’s defense minister, Shanahan noted the test was of some sort of tactical or battlefield weapon, not a missile that would violate Kim Jong Un’s self-imposed moratorium on testing ICBMs.

“The test or the launch, depending on how you want to characterize it, was not a ballistic missile. So I think that’s a statement in and of itself,” Shanahan said.