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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and American President Donald Trump vowed to take “concrete actions” to discourage further North Korean belligerence following yet another missile launch last week in an extended phone conversation Monday.

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The US envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley, has said that the time for talk on North Korea is "over," and that another weak UNSC resolution is "worse than nothing." Tensions are flaring over Pyongyang's recent tests of what it said were intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The United States said July 30 the time for talk over North Korea was "over," spurning a U.N. response to Pyongyang's latest ICBM launch in favor of bomber flights and missile defense system tests.

The time for talk on North Korea is “over”, the United States said, spurning a UN response to Pyongyang’s latest ICBM launch in favour of bomber flights and missile defence system tests.

"Negotiating time with North Korea is over, and the Security Council needs to step up with sanctions against Pyongyang for a series of rocket trials," said US representative in the UN Envoy Nikki Haley, the world news agency reported, cited by Mediapool.

President Trump has decided to end the CIA’s covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the government of Bashar al-Assad, a move long sought by Russia, according to U.S. officials.

The White House has declared that it believes Bashar al-Assad's regime is preparing to carry out another chemical weapons attack, and warned that the Syrian leader and his military would "pay a heavy price" if it went ahead, according to the Guardian. 

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley will make her first trip overseas this week as Washington's envoy to the United Nations, traveling to Jordan and Turkey to focus on the plight of Syrian refugees.     

Haley will meet with government officials and representatives of non-governmental organizations and UN agencies during the visit from May 19 to 25.

The reasons and implications of President Donald Trump's recent attack on Syria are being widely discussed. Yet what will be the impact on Turkey? How will the ongoing negotiations between the United States and Russia echo in Ankara? The answer seems to be short and crystal clear: From now on, Turkey needs to pursue a very delicate "policy of balance" between Washington and Moscow. 

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad cannot stay in power after a suspected chemical attack last week prompted the first direct U.S. military action against his government, Washington's ambassador to the United Nations has said.