--- title: North Korea Threatens 'Weekly' Missile Tests description: A North Korean official said the country will continue to test missiles regularly, as the White House warned against such launches canonical: https://time.com/4743040/north-korea-missile-tests-2/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-17T18:20:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:27:07.137Z article:section: Politics og:title: North Korean Official Threatens 'Weekly' Missile Tests Amid White House Warnings og:description: Vice foreign minister threatens "all-out war" if U.S. takes military action og:url: https://time.com/4743040/north-korea-missile-tests-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a9cc6b78239226e/6988c3257cdbac82cdd57eeb/north-korea1-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: North Korea What's Ahead og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: North Korean Official Threatens 'Weekly' Missile Tests Amid White House Warnings twitter:description: Vice foreign minister threatens "all-out war" if U.S. takes military action twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a9cc6b78239226e/6988c3257cdbac82cdd57eeb/north-korea1-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # North Korean Official Threatens 'Weekly' Missile Tests as White House Condemns Launches > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Apr 17, 2017 6:20 PM UTC  In this Saturday, April 15, 2017, file photo, a submarine missile is paraded across Kim Il Sung Square during a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea to celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, the country's late founder and grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong Un. North Korea's big day, the anniversary of the birth of its founding leader, Kim Il Sung, came and went with no underground nuclear test by the North, and no pre-emptive strikes off the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier sent to waters off the Korean Peninsula by President Donald Trump. Just hours before Vice President Mike Pence began his visit to Seoul on Sunday, Pyongyang fired off a ballistic missile — but it appears to have exploded seconds after it got off the ground. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File) In this Saturday, April 15, 2017, file photo, a submarine missile is paraded across Kim Il Sung Square during a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea to celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, the country's late founder and grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong Un. North Korea's big day, the anniversary of the birth of its founding leader, Kim Il Sung, came and went with no underground nuclear test by the North, and no pre-emptive strikes off the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier sent to waters off the Korean Peninsula by President Donald Trump. Just hours before Vice President Mike Pence began his visit to Seoul on Sunday, Pyongyang fired off a ballistic missile — but it appears to have exploded seconds after it got off the ground. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File) Wong Maye-E—AP  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Apr 17, 2017 6:20 PM UTC A North Korean official said the country will [continue to test missiles regularly](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39623882?ns%5Fmchannel=social&ns%5Fcampaign=bbc%5Fbreaking&ns%5Fsource=twitter&ns%5Flinkname=news%5Fcentral), as both President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence warned the country against such launches. “We’ll be conducting more missile tests on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis,” North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Han Song-Ryol [told the BBC](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39623882?ns%5Fmchannel=social&ns%5Fcampaign=bbc%5Fbreaking&ns%5Fsource=twitter&ns%5Flinkname=news%5Fcentral), warning that an “all-out war” will result if the United States takes military action. A North Korean [test missile failed](http://time.com/4741567/north-korea-missile-test-failed/?iid=sr-link3) on Sunday. Last week, Trump [dispatched a strike fleet](http://time.com/4739812/north-korea-donald-trump-preemptive-strike/?iid=sr-link1) toward the Korean peninsula. During a visit to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea this weekend, Pence warned North Korea to stop its “reckless” development of nuclear weapons. “The era of strategic patience is over,” he said, according to the Associated Press. “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. 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.” “Gotta behave,” [Trump said](https://twitter.com/CNN/status/853990051889295360) Monday at the White House when asked if he had a message for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4743040/north-korea-missile-tests-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4743040/north-korea-missile-tests-2/"},"headline":"North Korean Official Threatens 'Weekly' Missile Tests as White House Condemns Launches","datePublished":"2017-04-17T18:20:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:27:07.137Z","description":"A North Korean official said the country will continue to test missiles regularly, as both President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence warned against such launches","url":"https://time.com/4743040/north-korea-missile-tests-2/","keywords":["conflict","North Korea","White House","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a9cc6b78239226e/6988c3257cdbac82cdd57eeb/north-korea1-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a9cc6b78239226e/6988c3257cdbac82cdd57eeb/north-korea1-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"North Korea What's Ahead","caption":"North Korea What's Ahead","creditText":"Wong Maye-E—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/conflict/","name":"conflict"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4743040/north-korea-missile-tests-2/","name":"North Korean Official Threatens 'Weekly' Missile Tests as White House Condemns Launches"}}]}] ```