vipin narang.northern irelands's local election, where the dup and sinn fein have won the largest share of the vote. but it's the smaller parties and independents who have made significant gains. the cross—community alliance party were the biggest winners, largely at the expense of unionist parties, with the greens also making gains. sinn fein's number of seats remained static. talks aimed at reviving northern ireland's power sharing administration are due to be held next week — john campbell has more. well, there's no real surprise in that the dup and sinn fein are still the two largest parties. the dup is to the right a little, sinn fein is the biggest national party, so really, the story was that surge by the alliance party, drawing support from catholic and protestants. it mainly had its support in greater belfast, middle—class areas, but here it pushed its appeal far beyond that, for example, it won a seat on derry city council for the first time in a0 years. the leader of that party, says tha

vipin narang is an associate professor of political science at the massachusetts institute of technology nuclear policy and hejoins me now from cambridge, massachussets. thank you for your time. i was wondering, why would state media in north korea be so keen to tell us that kimjong north korea be so keen to tell us that kim jong il and north korea be so keen to tell us that kimjong il and ordered and oversaw these tests? —— kim jong un. they are trying to show that what happens if the negotiations in hanoi don't pick up and they have set a deadline very clearly until the end of this year, for the united states too, as they say, recalculate its position. in the last hour, this test got really interesting because we we re test got really interesting because we were under the impression yesterday and then through most of the day today that it was just a rocket system, project goals, as north korea and south korea refer to and president trump this morning tweeted. it turned out that they debuted a new short range ballistic missile and that poses a bit of a problem for, i think, the crisis g

earlier i spoke with vipin narang, associate professor of political science at the massachusetts instituteicance. i think they are trying to signal increasingly and remind both at home and abroad what happens if the negotiations that fell apart in hanoi don't pick up pace in the next couple of months and they've set a deadline very clearly until the end of this year, for the united states to, as they say, recalculate its position. and in the last hour, this test got much more interesting because we were under the impression yesterday and then through most of the day today that it was just a rocket system, projectiles, as north korea and south korea refer to, and that president trump this morning tweeted. but it turned out they debuted a new short—range ballistic missile and that poses a little bit of a problem for the crisis going forward. this is how the previous self—imposed missile testing moratorium started falling apart. they started with a short—range missile which isn't covered by the moratorium and then months later ended up testing a longer—range missile and so this may be the beg