BEIJING: China has called on the United States to shoulder more responsibility in tackling North Korea’s rogue nuclear programme, slapping down claims by US President Donald Trump that Beijing could bring the isolated state to heel.
North Korea defied the world last week with a missile test and is suspected of orchestrating the stunning assassination a day later of supreme leader Kim Jong-un’s half-brother in Malaysia, provocative acts that followed a nuclear test in September.
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