(26.5.2017) China will not support using more sanctions to further pressure North Korea into halting its nuclear weapons programme, a Chinese government-linked think tank was quoted as saying.

The message was delivered by a Beijing delegation attending a meeting this week with members of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York, according to Stephen Noerper, a senior director at the New York-based Korea Society and a former senior analyst in the US Department of State.