SEOUL: China must help the international community close loopholes in sanctions on North Korea after an “unprecedented” series of provocations by Pyongyang this year, a top US envoy said on Tuesday.

With two nuclear tests and more than 20 missile launches so far in 2016, the North’s leader Kim Jong-Un has hit a new low, said Sung Kim, the US State Department’s special representative for North Korea policy.

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