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Tuesday 16 May 2017
North Korea: New missile can carry heavy nuke China’s Xi outlines
cooperation plans
By FOSTER KLUG administration’s most ur- the homing feature of the a longer period than any in huge trade deal
Associated Press gent foreign policy wor- warhead under the worst other the North has ever
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — ries, though Washington re-entry situation and ac- test-fired. North Korea has Associated Press
North Korea on Monday has struggled to settle on a curate performance of also launched satellites BEIJING (AP) — Chinese
boasted of a successful policy. detonation system.” into orbit on long-range President Xi Jinping ex-
weekend launch of a new North Korea’s official Ko- South Korea’s Defense Min- rockets that share some of pressed ambitious hopes
type of “medium long- rean Central News Agency istry said more analysis is the same technology as for Asian and European
range” ballistic rocket that governments to work more
can carry a heavy nuclear closely on finance, law en-
warhead. Outsiders also forcement and a broad
saw a significant techno- range of other issues as
logical jump, with the test- leaders from 30 nations is-
fire apparently flying higher sued a joint endorsement
and for a longer time pe- Monday of a Beijing-led
riod than any other such trade initiative. The “Belt
previous missile. and Road” project is Chi-
Amid condemnation in na’s biggest foreign initia-
Seoul, Tokyo, Washington tive to date as Beijing looks
and Moscow, a jubilant for global stature to match
North Korean leader Kim its economic success. It
Jong Un promised more calls for expanding trade
nuclear and missile tests across Asia, Africa and Eu-
and warned that his coun- rope with multibillion-dollar
try’s weapons could strike investments in ports, rail-
the U.S. mainland and Pa- ways and other facilities,
cific holdings. but governments including
North Korean propaganda Russia, Washington and In-
must be considered with dia are uneasy Beijing also
wariness — Pyongyang has People watch a TV news program showing an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, pub- is using it to gain political in-
threatened for decades lished in the country’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper, at Seoul Railway station in Seoul, South Korea, fluence. Xi said the project
to reduce Seoul to a “sea Monday, May 15, 2017. North Korea said Monday the missile it launched over the weekend was a has “no political agenda.”
new type of “medium long-range” ballistic rocket that can carry a heavy nuclear warhead. A ju-
of fire,” for instance — but bilant leader Kim Jong Un promised more nuclear and missile tests and warned that North Korean But he expressed hope
Monday’s claim, if con- weapons could strike the U.S. mainland and Pacific holdings. governments taking part
firmed, would mark an- (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) in the initiative will coordi-
other big advance toward nate policy in finance, law
the North’s goal of fielding called the missile a “new needed to verify the North’s missiles. enforcement, technology
a nuclear-tipped missile ground-to-ground medium claim on the rocket’s tech- North Korea is not thought and education — areas
capable of reaching the long-range strategic bal- nological features. Spokes- to be able yet to make a where China’s status as
U.S. mainland. Some ex- listic rocket,” and said the man Moon Sang Gyun said nuclear warhead small the biggest Asian econo-
perts, including officials in “Hwasong-12” was “ca- it’s still unlikely that North enough to mount on a my would allow Beijing to
Tokyo, estimate that Sun- pable of carrying a large, Korea has re-entry technol- long-range missile, though dominate.
day’s launch successfully heavy nuclear warhead.” ogy, which would return a some outside analysts think “It is our hope that through
tested a new type of mis- Kim witnessed the test and warhead safely back into it can arm shorter-range the ‘Belt and Road’ devel-
sile, potentially the longest “hugged officials in the the atmosphere. missiles with warheads. opment, we will unleash
in North Korea’s arsenal. field of rocket research, Japanese officials said Sun- Each new nuclear and lon- new forces for global eco-
The test is also an immedi- saying that they worked day that the missile flew for ger-range missile test is part nomic growth,” Xi told re-
ate challenge to South Ko- hard to achieve a great half an hour and reached of the North’s attempt to porters at a conference
rea’s new president, Moon thing,” according to KCNA. an unusually high altitude build a nuclear-tipped in- center in the hills north of
Jae-in, a liberal elected The rocket, “newly de- before landing in the Sea tercontinental ballistic mis- the Chinese capital.
last week who expressed signed in a Korean-style,” of Japan. sile. Kim said North Korea The two-day meeting in-
a desire to reach out to flew 787 kilometers (490 Several South Korean ana- would stage more nuclear cluded Presidents Vladi-
North Korea. Pyongyang’s miles) and reached a max- lysts, including Lee Illwoo, a and missile tests in order mir Putin of Russia and
aggressive push to boost imum altitude of 2,111 ki- Seoul-based commentator to perfect nuclear bombs Recep Tayyip Erdogan of
its weapons program also lometers (1,310 miles), the on military issues, said the needed to deal with U.S. Turkey and presidents or
makes it one of the Trump North said, and “verified missile flew higher and for “nuclear blackmail.” q prime ministers from Italy,
Hungary, Greece, Kenya
and most of China’s Asian
Philippine lawmakers kill Duterte impeachment case neighbors but no major
Western leaders.
Britain, France and Ger-
By TERESA CEROJANO tives, which is dominated the president’s critics hope Since taking office in June, many were represented by
Associated Press by Duterte allies, declared the procedure could bol- Duterte’s war on drugs has finance or trade officials.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) during the first hearing on ster a lawsuit against him killed 7,000-9,000 suspected The United States sent a
— Philippine lawmakers the matter that while the before the International drug dealers and addicts, delegation led by the
on Monday killed an im- complaint was sufficient in Criminal Court for alleged according to human rights Asia director of President
peachment complaint ac- form, there was insufficient extrajudicial killings by groups. The government Donald Trump’s National
cusing President Rodrigo substance to proceed. showing that domestic ef- refutes that, releasing data Security Council. A joint
Duterte of crimes against The decision to stop the forts to stop Duterte have on May 2 showing nearly statement by the leaders
humanity for the thousands impeachment complaint, failed. The dismissal of the 4,600 people have been appeared to be crafted to
of people who have died which also accused complaint, filed in March, killed in police anti-drug defuse fears Beijing is trying
in his anti-drug crackdown. Duterte of murder, cor- bars any new impeach- operations and homicides to create a China-dom-
The Justice Committee of ruption and unexplained ment case against Duterte found to be drug-related. inated bloc and rewrite
the House of Representa- wealth, was expected. But until next March. q global trade rules.q