U.S. President Donald Trump said it was time for China to take decisive action against North Korea after Pyongyang’s latest ballistic missile launch, urging Beijing to “end this nonsense once and for all.”

“Does this guy have anything better to do with his life?” Trump said late Monday (local time), referring to his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un after North Korea fired a ballistic missile into East Sea on Tuesday morning. The U.S. military also confirmed the launch.

“Hard to believe that South Korea and Japan will put up with this much longer,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!”

The missile was fired from a site near Panghyon, North Phyongan Province.

Trump has been urging China to pressure the Pyongyang regime to put the brakes on its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. But he recently said that China’s efforts had “not worked out.”

Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping in an earlier phone call that the U.S. military is prepared to take unilateral action against North Korea, the New York Times reported late Monday. The Times, quoting unnamed senior administration officials, said the warning was delivered late Sunday in what the newspaper described as “a cordial but blunt” phone call.

Source:koreatimes.co.kr