カテゴリー: Nuclear weapons
Country firing close to South Korean waters in response to Washington-Seoul drills, as it also sells missiles to Russia In an overcrowded diplomatic nuclear space, the last thing the west needed to hear was that North Korea was back in business. It fir…
Survivors of 1945 atomic bomb express deep concern amid bellicose rhetoric from Russia and North KoreaToshiyuki Mimaki was playing in front of his family home in Hiroshima on the morning of 6 August 1945 when he saw a flash in the sky – the moment the …
US president questioned country’s nuclear weapons safety protocols sparking outrage in Islamabad Pakistan on Saturday summoned the US ambassador for an explanation after President Joe Biden described the south Asian country as “one of the most dangerou…
New national security strategy warns of Russia as more immediate threat and China as long-term competitorWithin a decade, the US will need to deter two major nuclear weapons powers for the first time, the Biden administrationhas warned, pointing to the…
Kim Jong-un said his forces were “completely ready to hit and destroy targets at any time from any location”North and South Korea tensions explained in 30 secondsNorth Korea’s recent flurry of missile tests demonstrated its ability to carry out strikes…
With six launches in 12 days, North Korea is flexing its muscles and taking advantage of geopolitical turmoil across the worldMillions of residents of northern Japan will have felt a sense of deja vu on Tuesday morning when they were alerted to a North…
North Korea has reportedly launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile over northern Japan. The first such shot in five years prompted the Japanese government to urge people to shelter from falling debris. The Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishid…
Pyongyang fired ballistic missiles into the sea just hours before US vice-president arrived in SeoulThe US vice-president, Kamala Harris, has condemned North Korea’s “provocative nuclear rhetoric” during a trip to South Korea that included a visit to t…
Russian forces are in retreat yet Nato still holds back for fear of what a humiliated Kremlin might do. But now is precisely the time to step up the pressureThere has been much excited talk of a “turning point” following Ukraine’s rapid military advanc…
Leader says North Korea’s nuclear status is now ‘irreversible’, with military allowed to ‘automatically’ use atomic weaponsNorth Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, says his country will never abandon the nuclear weapons and missiles it needs to counter hosti…
Countries technically still at war though both sides continue to refer to the eventual unification of the peninsulaNorth and South Korea share a language and traditional culture, but politically their modern history is one of conflict and division. The…
Cameraman Daniel McGovern copied footage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastation to ensure lessons were learnedThe photograph shows devastation in Nagasaki after the atomic bomb: a scorched wilderness where there was once a city. At its centre stands a l…
Sir Stephen Lovegrove, the UK’s national security adviser, says backdoor channels had deterioratedThe west risks the initiation of nuclear conflict with China or Russia because of a “breakdown of communication” with the two countries, the UK’s national…
Defence secretary says US does not support Taiwan independence, which China says would prompt it to take island backThe US has warned of “especially stark” stakes in the Taiwan Strait if the status quo is unilaterally altered, as China reiterated its r…
Countries use North’s elevation in rotating presidency to chastise Pyongyang over recent missile tests and feared preparation for fresh nuclear testNorth Korea skipped the diplomatic niceties for a combative tone as it took the helm of the Conference o…