Christians shout as they pray during an "emergency special prayer meeting" in Seoul April 25, 2009. Hundreds of enthusiastic Christians gathered on Sunday to pray for disarmament of North Korea's nuclear programme and for economic growth of South Korea among other issues at the meeting organised by a christian group. North Korea has started to extract plutonium from spent fuel rods at its nuclear arms plant, its foreign ministry said on Saturday, further raising regional tensions already stoked by its defiant rocket launch this month. Reuters Pictures 7 months ago

Christians shout as they pray during an "emergency special prayer meeting" in Seoul April 25, 2009. Hundreds of enthusiastic Christians gathered on Sunday to pray for disarmament of North Korea's nuclear programme and for economic growth of South Korea among other issues at the meeting organised by a christian group. North Korea has started to extract plutonium from spent fuel rods at its nuclear arms plant, its foreign ministry said on Saturday, further raising regional tensions already stoked by its defiant rocket launch this month.