US and China come together over defiant North Korea

The Telegraph, By Our Foreign Staff, 2:38PM GMT 25 Jan 2013

North Korea appears to have pushed one of its last friends into the arms of its enemy after US officials revealed that Washington and Beijing have achieved a "very strong degree of consensus" over the rogue state's nuclear ambitions.

Glyn Davies, the US special representative for North Korea policy, met with Chinese officials in Beijing on Friday as Pyongyang remained defiant over plans to conduct another nuclear test.

The envoy told reporters in Beijing that he had had wide-ranging discussions with Chinese officials on "all aspects of the North Korea issue" and they "achieved a very strong degree of consensus".

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