The President took a firm stand after experiencing his first taste of Kim Jong-un’s nuclear posturing since taking over the White House from Donald Trump.
Mr Biden said: “We are consulting with our allies and partners, and there will be responses. If they choose to escalate, we will respond accordingly.”
But he added: “I’m also prepared for some form of diplomacy, but it has to be conditioned upon the end result of denuclearisation.”
Mr Biden told a press conference that he regards Pyongyang’s nuclear and military proliferation as his most pressing foreign policy.
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