Asia
North Korea’s veteran newsreader returns to declare ICBM launch
9 years agoA man walks past a television screen at a railway station in Seoul on July 4, 2017, showing a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un celebrating the country's test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). North Korea proclaimed on July 4 that it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile -- a watershed moment in its push to develop a nuclear weapon capable of hitting the United States. / AFP PHOTO / JUNG Yeon-Je
Pyongyang deployed one of its most symbolic media assets to declare a key moment in North Korea's missile development -- a female TV announcer in her 70s.