[ti:North Korea Tests Long Range Cruise Missile]
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[00:00.04]North Korea said Monday it successfully tested
[00:05.52]a long-range cruise missile over the weekend.
[00:09.92]The tests show how the country is trying
[00:13.04]to grow its nuclear technology as diplomatic talks
[00:17.80]with the United States have mostly stopped.
[00:23.88]The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)
[00:30.16]reported that the missiles hit targets 1,500 kilometers away.
[00:37.92]State media published photos of an object
[00:41.92]being launched from a truck
[00:44.36]and what looked like a missile traveling in the air.
[00:48.88]Experts say the long-range cruise missile
[00:52.76]could give North Korea another way
[00:55.48]to escape its neighbors' missile defenses.
[01:00.76]North Korea says it needs nuclear weapons
[01:04.44]in order to prevent what it claims is hostility
[01:08.76]from the United States and South Korea.
[01:13.84]North Korea called its new missiles
[01:16.92]a "strategic weapon of great significance."
[01:21.60]Experts say that wording means the new missiles
[01:26.48]were developed to arm them with nuclear weapons.
[01:32.00]"While you could say the missile will be nuclear capable,
[01:36.36]there is no known North Korean warhead for it yet,"
[01:40.76]said Melissa Hanham.
[01:43.36]She is with the Stanford Center
[01:45.96]for International Security and Cooperation.
[01:51.64]The cruise missile can be launched as far as 1,500 kilometers.
[01:57.96]That means it could reach
[02:00.12]all parts of South Korea and most of Japan.
[02:06.52]In a statement, the U.S. military said it knew of the launches
[02:11.40]and is working closely with its allies and partners.
[02:16.80]The international community has tried for many years
[02:21.36]to get the North to stop its nuclear weapons program
[02:25.52]through threats of sanctions and the promise of economic help.
[02:31.20]But U.S.-led diplomatic meetings
[02:34.12]have greatly slowed since talks broke down in 2019
[02:39.44]between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
[02:43.52]and then-U.S. President Donald Trump.
[02:46.88]At that time, the Americans rejected Kim's demand
[02:51.88]for economic help in exchange for closing an old nuclear center.
[02:59.72]There had not been any known test launches since March,
[03:04.28]as Kim has been working on fighting the coronavirus
[03:08.20]and trying to improve the economy.
[03:11.88]Experts have said the economic situation in the North is very poor.
[03:19.48]The report of the tests comes
[03:22.32]before U.S. President Joe Biden's representative
[03:25.72]for North Korea, Sung Kim, was to meet
[03:29.52]with South Korean and Japanese diplomats in Tokyo Tuesday.
[03:35.48]The group was set to discuss nuclear diplomacy with North Korea.
[03:42.80]Defense experts say the missile test
[03:46.08]was a clear message to Washington.
[03:49.36]But the test may also be a sign
[03:52.32]that the North is struggling to develop more advanced weapons,
[03:56.96]said Du Hyeogn Cha.
[03:59.68]He is with Seoul's Asan Institute for Policy Studies.
[04:06.32]At a congress of the ruling Workers' Party in January,
[04:11.08]Kim promised to improve North Korea's nuclear technology.
[04:16.52]He listed new equipment he hoped to build,
[04:19.88]including longer-range intercontinental ballistic missiles,
[04:24.24]nuclear-powered submarines and spy satellites.
[04:29.04]North Korea has not carried out an intercontinental missile
[04:34.08]or nuclear test since 2017.
[04:38.92]Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato
[04:44.00]said the North Korean missiles present a "serious threat
[04:48.20]to the peace and safety of Japan and its surrounding areas."
[04:53.84]He said Japanese leaders were working with the U.S. and South Korea
[04:59.08]to gather information on North Korea's latest tests.
[05:06.04]Kim's powerful sister, Kim Yo-Jong,
[05:10.00]last month suggested that North Korea
[05:13.40]was ready to restart weapons testing.
[05:17.16]She also released a statement
[05:19.44]strongly criticizing the U.S. and South Korea
[05:23.84]for continuing their shared military exercises.
[05:28.80]She called the exercises the "most vivid expression
[05:33.44]of U.S. hostile policy" towards the North.
[05:38.32]I'm Dan Novak. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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