North Korean ballistic and nuclear weapons programme

China gets its way on North Korea despite resistance in Washington

On 30th July 2017, in the immediate aftermath of North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test, Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, published a portentous statement saying that the US would not seek an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the North Korean test or additional sanctions against North Korea.
Nikki Haley’s words in her statement bear some repeating