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(CNN)US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson strongly condemned North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile launch, calling it "a new escalation of the threat to the United States, our allies and partners, the region, and the world" in a statement Tuesday.

"Global action is required to stop a global threat," he said. "Any country that hosts North Korean guest workers, provides any economic or military benefits, or fails to fully implement UN Security Council resolutions is aiding and abetting a dangerous regime."

Tillerson also called for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and stated the US "will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea."

North Korea claimed Wednesday that it was just that. A statement from Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday's test was of a new, nuclear-capable ICBM.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called it an Independence Day present to the US, adding "we should deliver big and small presents often," KCNA said.

Tillerson's strong statement marks a striking contrast to when North Korea conducted a test in April and Tillerson said: "North Korea launched yet another intermediate-range ballistic missile. The United States has spoken enough about North Korea. We have no further comment."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/us-officials-meet-north-korea-missile-launch/index.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/05/north-korea-missile-test-new-threat-world-says-us-military-force-sanctions-workers

(CNN) The United States and South Korea held a joint missile drill after North Korea claimed to have conducted its first successful test of a long-range missile.

"Together with the Republic of Korea, we conducted a combined exercise to show our precision fire capability," Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said in a statement released Tuesday night.

US Army and South Korean military personnel conducted the exercise to counteract North Korea's "destabilizing and unlawful actions," a statement from the US Army said. The exercise used the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, and the Republic of Korea Hyunmoo Missile II, which fired missiles into territorial waters of South Korea along the East Coast, according to the US Army statement.

North Korea claims to have developed a new nuclear capable intercontinental ballistic missile with a stable re-entry system, state news agency KCNA said Wednesday in a report after the most recent missile test.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/asia/north-korea-missile-response/index.html