CHINA CONDUCTS NUCLEAR MISSILE

CHINA CONDUCTS LONG-RANGE NUCLEAR MISSILE DRILL

China’s military has recently released images of an inter-continental ballistic missile with enough range to reach the United States, as Beijing is involved in a series of rows threatening to embroil Washington.

The pictures of Chinese soldier’s test-firing a Dongfeng 31 missile, which is said by the experts to e able to carry nuclear warheads8000kilometetrs.

Further images showed soldiers dressed in protective suits, suggesting that the drill was simulating the launch of an armed warhead. It was the first  time that images of China’s nuclear missile  of such an exercise had been released.

At last China is embroiled in a series of territorial disputes with its neighbours in the South China Sea, and is locked in a row with Japan in the East China Sea over islands administered by Tokyo and claimed by Beijing.