カテゴリー: Nuclear weapons
Discussion held this month as way to press Russia and China into agreeing arms control deal, officials sayUS officials have debated whether to carry out the first US nuclear tests in 28 years as a way to pressure Russia and China into make a trilateral…
State Department report points to activities at China’s Lop Nur test site last year, though it does not have proofThe US state department has claimed China may have secretly conducted a low-yield underground nuclear test, in an accusation likely to fur…
Suspected short-range missile launches come as Pyongyang announces legislature to meet in April amid coronavirus pandemicNorth Korea fired two projectiles that appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off the east coast of the Korean …
Analysts say appointment of Ri Son-gwon suggests tougher stance on nuclear talks with US North Korea has appointed a former army officer with a reputation as a hardliner as its foreign minister, in a possible sign that it is to adopt a tougher stance i…
Dictator says Washington’s ‘gangster-like demands’ mean self-imposed ban no longer needed Kim Jong-un has signalled that North Korea will lift its moratoriums on nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests in a move likely to anger Donald Trum…
Stephen Biegun says on visit to Seoul that recent statements by Pyongyang were ‘so hostile and negative’The US special envoy for North Korea has dismissed a year-end deadline set by Pyongyang to make concessions in stalled nuclear talks, but said Washi…
US ambassador tells UN security council it must ‘act accordingly’ if regime does not turn from hostility and threatsThe United States has warned North Korea of consequences if it makes good on threats of a spectacular weapons test in the new year, whil…
Pyongyang responds to tweets on denuclearizationThe Guardian view on North Korea: a brewing nuclear crisisNorth Korea insulted Donald Trump again on Monday, calling him a “heedless and erratic old man” after he tweeted that North Korean leader Kim Jong…
North Korea claims test success at rocket launch sitePyongyang threatens return to Trump ‘dotard’ insultsDonald Trump said on Sunday North Korean leader Kim Jong-un risks losing “everything” and his country must denuclearize, after the North said it ha…
State media says test will change regime’s ‘strategic position’ amid further tensions with USNorth Korea has carried out a “very important” test at its Sohae satellite launch site, a rocket testing ground US officials once said Pyongyang had promised t…
Pontiff urges disarmament as he tours Japan’s atomic bomb sites and meets survivors of the 1945 attacksPope Francis has condemned the “unspeakable horror” of nuclear weapons during a visit to Nagasaki, one of two Japanese cities destroyed by American a…
US president says potential Democratic rival is ‘somewhat better than that’ and urges North Korean leader to agree nuclear dealDonald Trump has come to the defence of one of his potential rivals for the presidency, telling North Korea its recent descri…
US president says potential Democratic rival is ‘somewhat better than that’ and urges North Korean leader to agree nuclear dealDonald Trump has come to the defence of one of his potential rivals for the presidency, telling North Korea its recent descri…
Kim Jong-un ‘expressed satisfaction’ with the test and congratulated weapons scientists, state media said North Korea conducted another test of super-large multiple rocket launchers on Thursday afternoon, calling it a success, the state news agency KCN…
Washington says resumed negotiations in Sweden were ‘good’ and 70 years of hostility ‘could not be overcome in a day’North Korea’s lead negotiator has said that working-level nuclear talks in Sweden between officials from Pyongyang and Washington have …