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(Worthy News) – The UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting on Wednesday (Nov 29) to discuss North Korea’s latest launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, the US mission to the United Nations said.

The United States, Japan and South Korea moved quickly to request the meeting to address Pyongyang’s launch of the ICBM which the Japanese defence ministry said probably fell within Japan’s exclusive economic zone.

The council was already scheduled to discuss progress in implementing three recently-adopted rounds of sanctions aimed at choking off revenue to Pyongyang’s military programmes. [ Source: Channel News Asia (Read More…) ]

(Worthy News) – North Korea fired what may be its most sophisticated ballistic missile ever Tuesday, flouting President Trump’s threats and international efforts to halt the rogue nation’s nuclear weapons program and kicking off what national security analysts say is likely the first in a surge of new tests from the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the coming months.

The missile was tested in the wake of a 12-day East Asian tour by Mr. Trump focused largely on the North Korean threat, and just days after a top-level Chinese emissary traveled to Pyongyang for four days of talks, the first by a senior Chinese diplomat in two years. The timing suggests U.S. hopes that Beijing would rein in its troublesome neighbor and trading partner are fading.

While Mr. Trump at the White House tersely vowed that he would “take care of” the increasing North Korean threat, regional analysts said tensions will likely grow through February, when South Korea hosts the Winter Olympics. Pyongyang may seek to disrupt the international event with either a nuclear or major missile test. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]

(Worthy News) – After 2 ½ months of relative peace, North Korea launched its most powerful weapon yet early Wednesday, a presumed intercontinental ballistic missile that could put Washington and the entire eastern U.S. seaboard within range.

Resuming its torrid testing pace in pursuit of its goal of a viable arsenal of nuclear-tipped missiles that can hit the U.S. mainland had been widely expected, but the apparent power and suddenness of the new test still jolted the Korean Peninsula and Washington. The launch at 3:17 a.m. local time and midday in the U.S. capital indicated an effort to perfect the element of surprise and to obtain maximum attention in the United States.

The firing is a clear message of defiance aimed at the Trump administration, which had just restored the North to a U.S. list of terror sponsors. It also ruins nascent diplomatic efforts, raises fears of war or a pre-emptive U.S. strike and casts a deeper shadow over the security of the Winter Olympics early next year in South Korea. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]

(Worthy News) – Vice President Mike Pence said Tuesday that President Trump is “actively considering” moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to the divided city of Jerusalem.

In a speech commemorating the 70th anniversary of the U.N. vote that led to the founding of the state of Israel, Mr. Pence told the audience that Mr. Trump’s campaign promise about the embassy move is still being debated.

“President Trump is actively considering when and how to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,” the vice president said to applause. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]

(Worthy News) – A Christian missionary was shot dead in Nigeria after playing “Amazing Grace” on his guitar, two of the British survivors who were rescued earlier in November revealed.

Previous reports suggested that 57-year-old Ian Squire had died from asthma while held by kidnappers in Nigeria’s southern Delta region. But new accounts from rescued hostages David and Shirley Donovan reveal that he was killed.

“Ian was a man of faith, humor, music and invention,” David Donovan told The Telegraph on Friday. [ Source: Chistian Post (Read More…) ]