21 Jan 2022

Asia Correspondent: Ed White

From Summer Times, 9:56 am on 21 January 2022

Financial Times Correspondent Ed White joins us from Seoul with the latest news – a hamster cull in Hong Kong, China’s response to Omicron, and North Korea reconsidering the pause in nuclear weapon testing.

This picture taken on 5 January,2022 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows what North Korea says is the Academy of Defence Science of the DPRK test-firing a hypersonic missile on January 5 at an unconfirmed location.

Photo: AFP / KCNA via KNS

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