North Korea's defence minister warned Saturday of more "offensive action", as Washington and Seoul criticised Pyongyang's latest ballistic missile launch.

North Korea's missile launch on Friday came just over a week after US President Donald Trump -- on a tour of the region -- expressed interest in meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Pyongyang did not respond to the offer.

Pyongyang's defence minister No Kwang Chol said Washington "has become brazen in its military moves to threaten the security" of the North, and that it was "intentionally escalating the political and military tension in the region".

"We will show more offensive action against the enemies' threat," he said, according to Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

Earlier in the week, before Frid

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