US Ambassador To The U.N.: U.N. Has Exhausted Options On North Korea. May Hand Issue To Pentagon

ABC News Online: North Korea: UN has 'exhausted' its options and America may hand issue to Pentagon, Nikki Haley says

The US ambassador to the United Nations says the UN Security Council has run out of options to contain North Korea's nuclear program, adding Washington may have to turn the matter over to the Pentagon.

"We have pretty much exhausted all the things that we can do at the Security Council at this point," Nikki Haley told CNN, adding that she was perfectly happy to hand the North Korea issue over to Defence Secretary James Mattis.

As world leaders head to the United Nations headquarters in New York for the annual General Assembly meeting this week, Ms Haley's comments indicated the US was not backing down from its threat of military action against North Korea.

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