US urges China, Russia to take direct action against North Korea
North Korea has fired an unidentified missile from its capital Pyongyang that landed in the sea after passing over Japan.
In response to North Korea's latest missile launch over Japan, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday urged China and Russia to take direct action against Pyongyang."China and Russia must indicate their intolerance for these reckless missile launches by taking direct actions of their own," Tillerson said in a statement.He said China supplies North Korea with most of its oil and "Russia is the largest employer of North Korean forced labor."
Earlier, US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said that North Korea's missile launch over Japan have "put millions of Japanese into duck and cover" before it landed in the Pacific Ocean, and added that top US officials had fully coordinated after the test-launch."We have just got done with the calls we always make to coordinate among ourselves. Steady as she goes," Mattis told reporters traveling with him during a visit to the US Strategic Command, which oversees US nuclear forces.