Summit disrupted by ICBM test


Meeting of minds: Xi (centre) chatting with Prayut at a gala dinner with other leaders during the Apec summit in Bangkok. — AFP

Several Asia-Pacific leaders gathered for an economic summit in the Thai capital broke away from their meeting to condemn North Korea after it test fired an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Separately, police fired rubber bullets to disperse anti-government protesters in Bangkok as the host of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit, Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, was opening the conference.

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