BANGKOK: The United States will ask China, North Korea’s primary ally, to help rein in Pyongyang after it tested a missile that could hit the US mainland, an official said Friday.
“It will definitely be part of our diplomacy to try to get China to join the countries that are on record condemning this today,” said a senior official accompanying US Vice President Kamala Harris on an Asia trip.
The United States wants China “to use its influence to persuade the DPRK,” he said, using…