Ethiopia, Oct. 21 -- Addis Ababa, October 21, 2021 (Walta) - The United States, Britain and France confirmed Wednesday to the UN that North Korea has made progress in its weapons programs following the groundbreaking launch of a ballistic missile from a submarine.

Speaking to the media one after the other, ahead of a closed-door Security Council meeting that had been urgently called by Washington and London, the ambassadors of the western states all condemned the launch the day before as a new "provocation."

Without speaking of possible new sanctions or joint action by the council, they said they would call for existing international sanctions to be more effectively implemented.

At the end of the meeting, neither China nor Russia, the ...