How has North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme progressed this year? The UN security council is due to meet in New York at 3pm local time on Friday to discuss the launch. But despite that, North Korea has again carried out this outrageous conduct. “I don’t expect China to make any radical [moves],” said Zhao Tong, a North Korea expert at Beijing’s Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy. Soon after Friday’s launch, the US Pacific Command said it believed North Korea had fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile.

Source: The Guardian September 14, 2017 22:24 UTC