ALSO READ: Trump talks North Korea threat in calls with China, Japan leadersNorth Korea says the missile could carry a large nuclear warhead. Russia's deputy U.N. envoy said on Wednesday that military force should not be considered against North Korea and called for a halt to the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system in South Korea. He also said that attempts to strangle North Korea economically were "unacceptable" and that sanctions would not resolve the issue. The North Korean launch this week was both earlier and "far more successful than expected," said U.S.-based missile expert John Schilling, a contributor to Washington-based North Korea monitoring project 38 North. It would now probably only be a year or two before a North Korean ICBM achieved "minimal operational capability," he added.

Source: Standard Digital July 06, 2017 01:41 UTC