Kim ramps up warhead tests
NORTH Korea’s Kim Jongun had supervised the testfiring of a new tactical weapon with a “powerful warhead”, state media reported yesterday.
It is the first test of its kind since nuclear negotiations with Washington stalled.
The test marks a ratcheting up of tensions weeks after a summit between Mr Kim and US President Donald Trump collapsed without agreement.
It also comes after satellite imagery suggested heightened activity at a nuclear test site.
The test was “conducted in various modes of firing at different targets”, the KCNA outlet reported, adding that Mr Kim “guided the test-fire”. A TOUR bus crashed on Portugal’s Madeira Island yesterday, killing 29 tourists, all believed to be German..
The bus rolled down a steep slope after veering off the road on a bend east of the capital Funchal, crashing into a house.
Drone footage showed bodies scattered over a rural hill next to the Atlantic Ocean as the mangled bus wreckage rested precariously on its side in Canico, a coastal town in the south of the island.
The dead, 18 women and 11 men, were all in their 40s and 50s.
They were among more than one million tourists who visit the Atlantic islands off the coast of Morocco each year.
“I have no words to describe what happened. I cannot face the suffering of these people,” Canico mayor Filipe Sousa said.
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said: “I express the sorrow and solidarity of all the Portuguese people in this tragic moment, and especially for the families of the victims who I have been told were all German.
Germany's foreign ministry expressed “great shock”.
“Horrible news comes to us