The U.N. Security Council took no action after discussing North Korea’s March 25 missile tests at a meeting on Tuesday, NK News has confirmed, despite U.S. President Biden’s warning last week that Washington would “respond accordingly” to further escalations by Pyongyang.

A closed-door Security Council meeting to discuss the recent North Korean missile tests – prohibited under multiple rounds of U.N. sanctions – was convened Tuesday in New York following requests by European countries, an informed source said, but no statement or actions were ultimately agreed to.

The Security Council’s inaction followed