The US has said that it will use its "considerable
military forces" on North Korea "if we must".
Describing the North's latest missile test as a
sharp military escalation, the US ambassador to
the United Nations said the US will table a new
resolution against Pyongyang.


Ambassador Nikki Haley also threatened to use
trade restrictions.
The missile launch, the latest in a series of
tests, was in defiance of a ban by the UN
Security Council.
North Korea's actions were "quickly closing off
the possibility of a diplomatic solution," Ms Haley
said.


"The United States is prepared to use the full
range of our capabilities to defend ourselves,
and our allies," the US ambassador told the UN
Security Council, meeting for an emergency
session to discuss the test.


"One of our capabilities lies with our
considerable military forces. We will use them, if
we must, but we prefer not to have to go in that
direction".
North Korea's actions were "quickly closing off
the possibility of a diplomatic solution".
The French ambassador told the council that
France also favours a new resolution on North
Korea, which would tighten sanctions.


Russia, which condemned the test, said the
possibility of using military measures "should be
excluded".
Earlier, Donald Trump criticised China for its
trade with North Korea.


Ms Haley, who said she had discussed the issue
with the president, said the US could cut off
trade with countries which continued to trade
with North Korea in violation of US resolutions.


"We will look at any country that chooses to do
business with this outlaw regime," she says.
Mr Trump has arrived in Warsaw, ahead of his
trip to Hamburg for the G20 summit of
developed nations, where he is due to meet
Chinese President Xi Jinping for the second time.
The US president held talks with China's leader
Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago retreat in Florida in
April.


After those talks, Mr Trump hailed "tremendous
progress" with China , but on Wednesday the US
president tweeted: "So much for China working
with us - but we had to give it a try!"


Why have US-China relations soured?


There's little doubt the honeymoon between
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is over.
The administration is frustrated that China isn't
doing more to put the squeeze on North Korea.
Beijing is angry about recent moves taken by the
White House, including sanctions on a Chinese
bank for doing "illicit" business with Pyongyang,
and a $1.4 billion arms sale to Taiwan.


In one way this tension is neither new nor
surprising - previous American presidents
encountered similar resistance from Beijing,
which is determined to prevent chaotic upheaval
in North Korea. But the stakes are higher
because Pyongyang's nuclear weapons
programme is becoming more of a threat.


Mr Trump might respond by imposing more
sanctions on Chinese banks and front companies
that deal with North Korea. But some Asia
experts say China would be readier to increase
economic pressure on the regime if the US took
up Beijing's push for negotiations to deal with
the crisis.


What has North Korea said?


Tuesday's launch was North Korea's first-ever
test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile
(ICBM).
State news agency KCNA quoted leader Kim
Jong-un as saying the test was a "gift" to the
Americans on their independence day.
The report warned of the possibility of more
tests, saying he had ordered officials to
"frequently send big and small 'gift packages' to
the Yankees".


Pyongyang said earlier the Hwasong-14 ICBM
had reached an altitude of 2,802km (1,731 miles)
and flew 933km for 39 minutes before hitting a
target in the sea.


Have North Korea's missile tests paid off?


North Korea, it said, was now "a full-fledged
nuclear power that has been possessed of the
most powerful inter-continental ballistic rocket
capable of hitting any part of the world".


What is an ICBM?


A long-range missile usually designed to
carry a nuclear warhead


The minimum range is 5,500km (3,400
miles), although most fly about 10,000km or
more


Pyongyang has previously displayed two
types of ICBMs: the KN-08, with a range of
11,500km, and the KN-14, with a range of
10,000km, but before 4 July had not claimed
to have flight tested an ICBM. It is not clear
what differentiates the Hwasong-14


What now for Washington?


By bringing Alaska within range, the new missile
test is an unambiguous game-changer in both
symbolical and practical terms.
US territory (albeit separate from the contiguous
continental US) is now finally within Pyongyang's
cross-hairs.


For the first time a US president has to accept
that the North poses a "real and present" danger
not merely to north-east Asia and America's key
allies - but to the US proper.
President Trump's weakness lies in having
overplayed his hand too publicly and too loudly.
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40513334

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fuckingAyaya:
That short man devil needs to be eliminated from the surface of this earth

Becos of what ?

USA can't do nothing
SK and Japan are within reach
Simple maths

seunny4lif:
USA can't do nothing
SK and Japan are within reach
Simple maths

You are assuming Trump is rational and sane.

fuckingAyaya:
That short man devil needs to be eliminated from the surface of this earth

you think so?