North Korea's test no threat to Tokyo's bid

Tokyo's top administrator has denied that North Korea's latest nuclear test will trigger regional instability and threaten the city's bid to host the 2016 Olympics.

"It's an issue of East Asian security," Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara told Reuters on Tuesday when asked about Pyongyang's test blast a day earlier. "But I don't think it's suddenly going to become a flashpoint." The Guardian reports