2024-10-31
36 分钟You're listening to the Briefing, first broadcast on 31st October 2024 on Monocle Radio.
Hello and welcome to the Briefing.
Coming to you live from Studio 2 here at Midori House in London, I'm Andrew Muller.
Coming up on today's program, North Korea launches its highest, longest missile test yet.
Spain counts the cost of what may be its wor ever flooding disaster.
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More on the US Election countdown later in the show.
Also, Canada to join the high speed rail revolution.
The connection, the links between those cities would be totally transformed by high speed rails.
And come on, he's worked really hard on it this week.
Just stay focused and we can get him in and out in five minutes.
I've read that out loud again, haven't I?
I really did work hard, Andrew.
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Welcome to today's edition of the Briefing with Andrew Muller.
It is not North Korea's first missile test and nigh, certainly not North Korea's last, but as of this broadcast, it is North Korea's highest and longest.
What was probably an intercontinental ballistic missile launched earlier today from a site near Pyongyang, flew for 86 minutes and reached an altitude of 7,000 km before splashing down 300 km west of Japan, according to North Korean state media.
Like there is any other kind.