NUKE WARS

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Japan, US stage naval drill amid N. Korea tension
Nov 16, 2017 (AFP)
The 10-day exercise, joined by some 14,000 US servicemen, aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and the guided-missile destroyers USS Stethem, USS Chafee and USS M...
Singapore suspends trade ties with North Korea
Nov 16, 2017 (AFP)
A circular by Singapore Customs on its website banned "all commercially traded goods... from or to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), regardless ...
China to send envoy to North Korea
Nov 15, 2017 (AFP)
President Xi Jinping's special envoy, Song Tao, will head to North Korea on Friday to discuss the Chinese Communist Party's congress, which took place last mont...
N. Korea defector in serious condition from gunshot wounds
Nov 15, 2017 (AFP)
The soldier suffered at least six gunshot wounds Monday as he dashed across the border at the Panmunjom truce village amid relentless firing by North Korean gua...
UN condemns N. Korea for firing missiles as people starve
Nov 14, 2017 (AFP)
The UN General Assembly's human rights committee adopted by consensus a resolution drafted by the European Union and Japan that expressed international concern ...
Senate panel debates US president's nuclear authority
Nov 14, 2017 (AFP)
The closely watched debate, organized and chaired by a prominent Republican Trump critic, addressed a hypothetical presidential decision to launch a nuclear fir...
N. Korea soldier shot six times as he defected to South
Nov 14, 2017 (AFP)
The US-led United Nations Command (UNC), which monitors the Panmunjom border truce village where the defection occurred Monday, said the soldier had driven clos...
Iran in compliance with nuclear deal: UN watchdog
Nov 13, 2017 (AFP)
The quarterly International Atomic Energy Agency update confirmed that key parameters of Iran's nuclear programme remained within the limits of the accord with ...
North Korea at UN warns US carriers are fueling tensions
Nov 13, 2017 (AFP)
North Korea's Ambassador Ja Song Nam said in a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that this was "the worst ever situation prevailing in and around ...
Three US carriers lead naval drill aimed at N. Korea
Nov 11, 2017 (AFP)
The four-day exercise in the western Pacific involves three flattops -- USS Ronald Reagan, USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt -- and seven South Korean vesse...
Iran tells France nuclear deal 'not negotiable'
Nov 11, 2017 (AFP)
Emmanuel Macron called for vigilance towards Tehran over its ballistic missile programme and regional activities, in an interview published Wednesday by the Emi...
N. Korea brands Trump a 'warmonger' as his Asia tour moves to Hanoi
Nov 11, 2017 (AFP)
The outburst came as Trump nears the tail end of his sweep through Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines that has seen him rail against the Nor...
North Korean nuclear test measured in southwest Germany
Nov 10, 2017 (SPX)
"This corresponds to about a moderate earthquake," Toni Zieger of KIT's Geophysical Institute (GPI) says. "However, the detonation could not be felt here," Zieg...
Raytheon contracted for development, integration of G550 systems
Nov 09, 2017 (UPI)
The deal is estimated to be worth more than $79.6 million and is classified as a fixed-price-incentive-firm contract, meaning, that once performance on the cont...
US expected to name North Korea terror sponsor
Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)
In itself, the designation will not have much practical impact on a pariah state already facing an array of US and international sanctions and intense diplomati...
Trump prods Xi to work 'hard' and fast on North Korea
Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)
Speaking on the second day of a trip to Beijing marked by pomp and pageantry, the US president also decried China's "one-sided and unfair" trade surplus with th...
NATO discusses Russia missile treaty 'violations': Mattis
Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)
Washington claims that Russia has broken with the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty, signed during the Cold War, that prohibits the deployment of short- and in...
US carriers in rare Pacific op amid N. Korea tensions
Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)
The USS Ronald Reagan, USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt will conduct "coordinated operations in international waters", the navy said, as US President Donal...
France's Macron: US risks pushing Iran to build nukes
Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)
"If you want to stop any relation with Iran regarding nuclear activity, you will create a new North Korea," Macron told Time magazine. "If you stop the 2015 agr...
On first Mideast trip, Macron urges 'firm' stance on Iran
Nov 08, 2017 (AFP)
"It is important to remain firm with Iran over its regional activities and its ballistic programme," said Macron, in the United Arab Emirates for a 24-hour offi...
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