BBC News with Nick Kelly.

Pope Francis has urged the Roman Catholic Church to act with determination to tackle the

sexual

abuse">abuse of children in his first remarks on the issue since he became pontiff. But a group representing abuse">abuse victims says the comments are inadequate. Alan Johnston reports.

Pope Francis made his remarks to the Vatican officials who investigate sex abuse">abuse cases. He urged them to continue what he said was the decisive action demanded by his predecessor Pope Benedict. The new pope said this required measures to protect children and to help those who have suffered abuse">abuse in the past. He also spoke of the need to

pursue

the guilty. But those representing victims of

abuse

will want more. Responding to the pope’s words, one group said that children would not be helped by what it called a continuation of the tiny symbolic gestures taken so far.

North Korea has told foreign diplomatic missions in Pyongyang to consider evacuating their employees as tensions increase over the country’s nuclear weapons programme. Earlier there were reports from South Korea that the North had loaded two medium-range missiles onto mobile launchers">launchers. In Washington, the White House Spokesman Jay Carney said they were monitoring situation closely.

“We have seen them

launch

missiles in the past and the United Nations Security Council has repeatedly condemned them as violations of the North’s obligations under