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North Korea has supplied Russia with ballistic missiles and missile launchers that were used in recent attacks on Ukraine, the White House says. SOUNDBITE
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says that North Korea will pay the "price" if it supplies Russia with arms, during a press briefing at the White House. SOUNDBITE
The US could consider "diplomacy" in its attempts to end the standoff with North Korea over the isolated country's nuclear arsenal. "We have a clear objective as it relates to North Korea, which is denuclearizing the ... Korean peninsula," says White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. SOUNDBITE
The White House rejects claims that the United States has declared war on North Korea as "absurd" in the latest exchange of barbs and insults between the two nuclear powers. SOUNDBITE
The U.S. has strongly condemned North Korea for its test firing of three ballistic missiles on Tuesday, calling it a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).