North Korea just launched a new weapons test — highlighting Trump's failed diplomacy: report

North Korea has launched a test of a "new tactical guided weapon," the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

Leader Kim Jong-un reportedly called it an "event of very weighty significance."

The AP's Zeke Miller noted that a White House official anonymously confirmed the test but offered "no further comment."

While President Donald Trump has touted his diplomatic meetings with Kim as a revolutionary step forward in relations between the two countries, they've produce little substantial progress. In particular, movement has been woefully lacking on Trump's stated objective of denuclearizing the Korea peninsula. At the same time, they've given Kim a stature on the world stage that previous presidents had denied to the brutal dictator and his predecessors.

But in a recent speech, Trump defended the talks.

“I’m not in a rush. I don’t want to rush anybody,” Trump said. “I just don’t want testing. As long as there’s no testing, we’re happy.”