President Yoon Suk Yeol said Tuesday that North Korea will learn its provocations only bring "greater pain," as he referred to a series of missile launches by the regime this week, including its latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), Paralel.Az reports citing Yonhap News Agency.

Yoon made the remark during a Cabinet meeting a day after North Korea fired what appeared to be a Hwasong-18 in its fifth test of an ICBM this year.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the launch showed "what option (North Korea) would take when Washington makes a wrong decision against it," according to state media.

"North Korea launched a short-range missile and an ICBM yesterday and the day before for two consecutive days," Yoon said during the meeting. "The North Korean regime will come to realize its provocations will only come back to them as greater pain."

Yoon said South Korea, the United States and Japan have activated the real-time sharing of North Korean missile warning data and that the recent launch confirmed the system's smooth operation.

He also said last week's meeting of the South Korea-U.S. Nuclear Consultative Group brought the allies a step closer to establishing an integrated extended deterrence regime.