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Pyongyang children perform in a massive musical gala staged for visiting foreign journalists and tourists ahead of a rare party congress. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
North Korea announced its fifth successful nuclear test on Friday morning, stating that it is now able to mount nuclear warheads on ballistic rockets. The announcement came after a large seismic event was identified at the country's nuclear test site. The US Geological Survey (USGS) detected a powerful explosion measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale at the site, igniting reports of the nuclear test, believed to be the country's most powerful yet.
Thousands pack into Pyongyang's April 25 House of Culture for the first congress of North Korea's Workers' Party in 36 years. And, as Nathan Frandino reports, the country's nuclear ambitions are dominating the agenda.
Pyongyang gears up for Friday's start of the Seventh Workers' Party Congress, the first in 36 years, at which Kim Jong-Un is expected to declare North Korea a nuclear weapons state. Ashraf Fahim reports.
Election officials at a polling station in the northern city of Shamli pack and seal electronic voting machines as the first of seven voting stages closes in the world's biggest election. IMAGES