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by Our Foreign Desk
NORTH Korea’s decision to press ahead with a controversial rocket launch drew wide ranging international criticism yesterday, including from its main ally China.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that although China believed that North Korea should have the right to peaceful utilisation of space “at present this right is restricted by UN security council resolutions.” 7
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
JENNY CLEGG reports from a Chinese peace conference bringing together defence ministers, US think tanks and global South leaders, where speakers warned that the erosion of multilateralism risks regional hotspots exploding into wider war