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President Donald Trump on Saturday night confronted his first international test after North Korea launched a ballistic missile, saying in a hastily organized press conference from his Mar-a-Lago resort that the United States "stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100 percent."

His brief remarks came at a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has been spending the weekend with Trump in Florida. South Korea on Saturday night deemed the missile launch the first test of Trump's statement that defending against nuclear attacks from North Korea was a "very, very high priority."

At the three-minute-long press conference, where neither of the world leaders took questions, Abe decried the launch as "as absolutely intolerable."

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