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North Korea tests new weapon

State media has reported the test of a new "tactical guided weapon"

North Korea says it has tested a new tactical guided weapon. Observers suggest that it was probably a short-range weapon. The news comes on the same day a senior foreign ministry official has demanded the removal of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from nuclear talks. We hear from a senior North Korean defector.

Also in the programme: US Attorney General William Barr gives a news conference ahead of the release of the Mueller report into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.

And researchers say they have discovered a giant mammal with huge fangs that roamed around East Africa more than 20 million years ago.

(Photo: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on April 16, 2019. Credit: AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS)

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Thu 18 Apr 201913:06GMT

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