Nuclear weapons
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No ‘fire and fury’ yet, but a game of nuclear brinkmanship with North Korea looms
Analysis: Kim Jong-un’s pressure on Joe Biden has so far elicited only fresh sanctions. Pyongyang has now sign…
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North Korea fires railway-borne missiles in third weapons test this month
Two tactical guided missiles hit their target, state media said, hours after Pyongyang accused US of ‘provocat…
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North Korea tests possible ballistic missile in third launch in two weeks
South Korean military says projectile was fired into the sea, and comes after US imposed further sanctions on …
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North Korea says it tested hypersonic missile with ‘superior manoeuvrability’
Kim Jong-un personally oversaw test, state media reports, and confirms South Korean belief that launch was mor…
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North Korea conducts fresh ‘hypersonic missile’ launch
Second launch in less than a week designed to put pressure on US and follows condemnation at UNNorth Korea has…
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North Korea has launched possible ballistic missile, say Japan and South Korea
Regime conducts first such launch of the year, with South Korea’s military saying the missile appears to have …
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Five of world’s most powerful nations pledge to avoid nuclear war
US, Russia, China, the UK and France who are permanent members of the UN security council agree ‘nuclear war c…
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From ‘tempestuous’ child to little rocket man: 10 years of Kim Jong-un
Some observers said he would survive a few months as the head of a nuclear-armed state but, a decade later, th…
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As China threat rises, can Aukus alliance recover from rancorous birth?
Questions mount about pact’s ultimate purpose and implications for other Asean countriesIt was initially seen …
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Abdul Qadeer Khan obituary
Physicist hailed as the father of Pakistan’s atomic weapons industry who confessed to smuggling nuclear secret…
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Slim Kim Jong-un: North Korean leader believed healthy despite weight loss
South Korean spies used advanced techniques to analyse why Kim Jong-un appears to have lost 20 kgNorth Korean …
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China’s hypersonic glider weapons test threatens to drive new arms race
Analysis: China recently tested a nuclear-capable manoeuvrable missile and Russia and the US have their own pr…
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North Korea says test was new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile
State media report that device launched on Tuesday had ‘lots of advanced control guidance technologies’North K…
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Pakistani nuclear weapons scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan dies aged 85
PM pays tribute to ‘national icon’ who turned country into atomic power but later admitted smuggling nuclear s…
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‘Pushing the nuclear envelope’: North Korea’s missile diplomacy
Analysis: Fear and uncertainty of the Obama years could return as Kim Jong-un revives nuclear ambitionsNorth K…