A senior Pyongyang official said US President Joe Biden's condemnation of North Korea's firing of two missiles amounted to an "encroachment" and "provocation," the state-run KCNA news agency reported Saturday. "Such remarks from the US president are an undisguised encroachment on our state's right to self-defence and provocation to it," Ri Pyong Chol, who supervised the missile test, said in a statement, according to the outlet. bfm/acb