WorldChina warned Wednesday that North Korea and the United States were like two trains racing towards a “head-on collision,” calling on both sides to apply the brakes and avert a security crisis. Wang said China's proposal could help bring the US and North Korea back to negotiations on ending Pyongyang's weapons programmes. North Korea slammed the Security Council statement as a “brigandish act like a thief crying 'stop thief! South Korea says the February 13 killing at Kuala Lumpur's airport using a banned chemical weapon was orchestrated by the North. Malaysia says 11 of its citizens were currently in North Korea.

Source: Sunday Times March 08, 2017 12:06 UTC