FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016 file photo, a man watches a TV news showing images that North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper reports of the ground test of a high-powered engine of a carrier rocket and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the country's Sohae Space Center, at Seoul Railway station in Seoul, South Korea. Since North Korea’s latest nuclear test, Pyongyang and Seoul have been openly trading threats of decapitation strikes and annihilating capitals populated by millions of civilians. And the talk of how each side might throw that first pre-emptive punch has become more detailed than ever. The letters read "Kim Jong Un directed the ground test of a high-powered engine of a carrier rocket for a geo-stationary satellite." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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