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Now playing Next North Korea North Korea says it continues to develop its nuclear weapons capability Seoul dismisses the suggestion of military talks from Pyongang as "meaningless" amid speculation about a fifth nuclear test. 09/05/2016
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Now playing Next Unreported Europe European nuclear energy post-Chernobyl Three decades after Chernobyl, how safe is nuclear energy in Europe? 22/04/2016
Now playing Next Unreported Europe Life in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone A visit to the ghost town of Pripyat, Ukraine reveals what life is like three decades after the nuclear disaster. 22/04/2016
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Now playing Next Unreported Europe A Ukrainian nuclear power plant and the containment of a disaster Zaporizhia was built at the same time as Chernobyl, with Soviet-era reactors. 22/04/2016
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Now playing Next world news The silent screams of Pripyat, 30 years on It’s the silence that strikes one the most in Pripyat when you see the artifacts that once formed part of thousands of everyday human routines 21/04/2016