2016-04-09 16:18:00

North Korea tests rocket engine for long range nuclear missiles


(Vatican Radio) North Korean state television is reporting the test of a rocket engine for boosting its long-range nuclear arsenal.

Listen to Alastair Wanklyn's report:



Pyongyang has made a string of similar claims recently about its ability to destroy cities in South Korea, Japan and the United States. It has also denounced the latest United Nations sanctions, which are in punishment for a nuclear blast and rocket test earlier this year.

Separately this weekend, G-7 foreign ministers are meeting in the Japanese city of Hiroshima for talks on terrorism, maritime security and nuclear non-proliferation. Japan is among nations pushing for nuclear disarmament.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will become the most senior American official to visit Hiroshima since its destruction in World War II. Some Japanese hope President Obama will visit one of the two sites where atomic bombs were dropped, when he attends a G-7 summit in Japan next month.

Today, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been rebuilt, and public parks stand near where the bombs fell. But across Japan, a sense of injustice remains over the massive destruction of life.








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