PRESIDENT Joe Biden shrugged off a short-range missile launch by North Korea on Tuesday as simple "business as usual."
The president said he and his defence officials don't consider North Korea's launch of several short-range non-ballistic cruise missiles as anything to be alarmed about - instead, saying they don't flout the UN Security Council resolutions.
When asked by reporters on Tuesday evening, Biden instead played the latest act of aggression coolly.
"We have learned that nothing has changed," he said.
"No, according to the Defence Department, it's business as usual," Biden said when asked if he should consider the launch an act of provocation.
"There's no new wrinkle in what they did."
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NO FIRE AND FURY Biden shrugs off first North Korea non-ballistic missile test as president insists launch was just ‘business as usual’
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