Highlights 1 Trump issued a new threat to North Korea on Friday. "Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely," he wrote on Twitter. 'BACK CHANNELS'Trump said he did not want to talk about diplomatic "back channels" with North Korea after US media reports that Joseph Yun, the US envoy for North Korea policy, has engaged in diplomacy for several months with Pak Song Il, a senior diplomat at Pyongyang's UN mission, on the deteriorating relations and the issue of Americans imprisoned in North Korea. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has called a meeting of EU member states next week to discuss what action they will take regarding North Korea. Also Read:India asks North Korea to refrain from nuclear and ballistic missile programmesSuccessfully tested intercontinental ballistic missile: North Korea

Source: India Today August 11, 2017 14:42 UTC