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North Korea test-fires its long-range missile and could Canada get high-speed rail?
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31 October 2024
Episode 3418
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North Korea test-fires an upgraded, long-range missile; at least 95 people have died and many remain missing in Spain’s flash-floods; vice president Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are both in the pivotal battleground states of Nevada and Arizona; and could Canada get its first high-speed rail service soon? Plus: an election special edition of ‘The Global Countdown’ with Fernando Augusto Pacheco.
31 October 2024
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North Korea’s longest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile test
John Everard, former UK ambassador to North Korea, on the significance of the country’s highest and longest intercontinental ballistic missile test.
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