During the speech, the President attacked Kim Jong-un and previous US regimes and emphasised a need for change in order to denuclearise the hermit kingdom.
He said: “We are working to counter the dangerous aggressions of the regime in North Korea.
“The regime continues development of its unlawful weapons programmes including its illegal nuclear tests and outrageous launches of ballistic missiles directly over Japanese territory are a threat to the civilised world and international peace and stability.
“We will not stand for that, the era of strategic patience is over.
“Some people said that my rhetoric is very strong, but look what’s happened with very weak rhetoric over the last 25 years, look where we are right now.”
Trump is currently on the second day of a 12-day Asian trip that is focusing on both trade and North Korea’s nuclear missile programmes.
Abe told the same news conference that Japan backed Trump’s stance that “all options” are on the table when it comes to North Korea, saying the two countries were “100 per cent” together on the issue.
Earlier, Trump vowed to push for a free and balanced trade partnership with Japan after decades of “massive trade deficits” but said relations with close ally Tokyo were “better than we have ever had”.
Abe, at the start of a working lunch with Trump, offered his “heartfelt condolences” for the victims of a gunman who massacred at least 26 worshippers at a church in Texas.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Trump, who earlier expressed grief for the victims, had no plans at this time to change the schedule for his 12-day Asian trip, which will also take him to Seoul, Beijing and Danang, Vietnam.
The increasingly aggressive rhetoric from the President comes as new reports have stated that North Korea is ready to carry out a nuclear test “at any time” as the country continues “active movement” around a missile research facility.
The National Intelligence Service (NIS), South Korea’s spy agency, has given the chilling warning that the hermit kingdom is persisting with its efforts to start World War 3.
The NIS said: “The North will carry out an additional nuclear test and continue to push for the development of miniaturised, diversified nuclear warheads.”
The South Korean agency stated that increased activity around a research facility in Pyongyang show that despot leader Kim Jong-un is gearing up to launch another world provocation for the first time since September.