- Pyongyang angered by US bombing drill over peninsula
- Donald and Melania Trump visit Pearl Harbour memorial
- Trump to visit Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and Philippines
- USA warns: “North Korea is a threat to the entire world.”
Here are live updates from Donald Trump’s trip and the latest news on the North Korea war threat. (All times BST)
10am: North Korea accuses US of “gangster-like” warmongering
North Korea’s state-run KCNA new agency said: “The gangster-like U.S. imperialists are ceaselessly resorting to their frantic nuclear threat and blackmail to stifle North Korea with nukes at any cost.”
“The reality clearly shows that the gangster-like U.S. imperialists are the very one who is aggravating the situation of the Korean peninsula and seeking to ignite a nuclear war.”
Pyongyang said US bombers, which took off from Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, flew “into South Korea again to stage a surprise nuclear strike drill targeting North Korea” this week.
12.30am: Donald and Melania Trump lay wreath in Pearl Harbor
The US President and First Lady laid a wreath at the USS Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Friday ahead of their tour of Asia.
The Trumps threw white petals of the memorial for the US sailors killed when Japan bombed the American naval base on December 7, 1941.
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8pm: Trump given garland on arrival in Hawaii
After Air Force One landed at Joint Base Hickam, Mr Trump and his wife, Melania, were draped with traditional lei necklaces.
Mr Trump went on to nearby Camp Smith for a classified briefing from Pacific Command military leaders that officials expected would touch on North Korea and other areas.
7.45pm: North Korea slams US-led ‘brutal sanctions’
North Korea has called for a halt to what it called “brutal sanctions”, saying the measures – imposed after its latest nuclear test – constituted genocide.
“Today the U.S.-led racket of brutal sanctions and pressure against the DPRK constitutes contemporary human rights violation and genocide,” the North Korean mission to the United Nations in Geneva said in a statement.
The sanctions regime “threatens and impedes the enjoyment by the people of DPRK of their human rights in all sectors”, it said.
The global community has been ramping up the pressure on the isolated country after it conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test so far in September.
6pm: USA warns that North Korea threatens the ‘entire world’
US National Security Adviser HR McMaster, warned that “time is running out” to counter the nuclear threat posed by North Korea.
He said: “North Korea is a threat to the entire world so all nations of the world must do more to counter that threat.”