Nuclear weapons
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US security officials ‘considered return to nuclear testing’ after 28-year hiatus
Discussion held this month as way to press Russia and China into agreeing arms control deal, officials sayUS o…
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China may have conducted low-level nuclear test, US claims
State Department report points to activities at China’s Lop Nur test site last year, though it does not have p…
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North Korea fires projectiles into sea for third time in a month
Suspected short-range missile launches come as Pyongyang announces legislature to meet in April amid coronavir…
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North Korea appoints hardline ex-army officer as new foreign minister
Analysts say appointment of Ri Son-gwon suggests tougher stance on nuclear talks with US North Korea has appoi…
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Kim Jong-un signals North Korea will resume nuclear missile tests
Dictator says Washington’s ‘gangster-like demands’ mean self-imposed ban no longer needed Kim Jong-un has sign…
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US North Korea envoy dismisses year-end deadline for talks breakthrough
Stephen Biegun says on visit to Seoul that recent statements by Pyongyang were ‘so hostile and negative’The US…
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US warns North Korea of consequences of missile test ‘Christmas gift’
US ambassador tells UN security council it must ‘act accordingly’ if regime does not turn from hostility and t…
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North Korea insults Trump as ‘heedless and erratic old man’ as tension rises
Pyongyang responds to tweets on denuclearizationThe Guardian view on North Korea: a brewing nuclear crisisNort…
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Trump: Kim Jong-un risks losing everything if he acts ‘in a hostile way’
North Korea claims test success at rocket launch sitePyongyang threatens return to Trump ‘dotard’ insultsDonal…
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North Korea claims test success at rocket launch site
State media says test will change regime’s ‘strategic position’ amid further tensions with USNorth Korea has c…
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Pope Francis calls for a ‘world without nuclear weapons’ during Nagasaki visit
Pontiff urges disarmament as he tours Japan’s atomic bomb sites and meets survivors of the 1945 attacksPope Fr…
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Trump chides Kim Jong-un for calling Joe Biden a ‘rabid dog’ that should be killed
US president says potential Democratic rival is ‘somewhat better than that’ and urges North Korean leader to a…
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Trump chides Kim Jong-un for calling Joe Biden a ‘rabid dog’ that should be killed
US president says potential Democratic rival is ‘somewhat better than that’ and urges North Korean leader to a…
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North Korea hails test of ‘super-large multiple rocket launcher’
Kim Jong-un ‘expressed satisfaction’ with the test and congratulated weapons scientists, state media said Nort…
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North Korea breaks off nuclear talks, blaming US team’s ‘old attitude’
Washington says resumed negotiations in Sweden were ‘good’ and 70 years of hostility ‘could not be overcome in…