NUKE WARS

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200 dead in tunnel accident at N.Korea nuclear test site: report
Oct 31, 2017 (AFP)
A tunnel collapsed at Punggye-ri in early September, days after North Korea conducted its sixth and largest underground nuclear test on September 3, TV Asahi sa...
South Korea, China seek to warm frosty ties
Oct 31, 2017 (AFP)
The nations have been at loggerheads over the deployment in South Korea of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, which Seoul and Washington...
EU, Japan ask UN to condemn N. Korea over rights abuses
Oct 31, 2017 (AFP)
After the death of US student Otto Warmbier, a draft resolution also said North Korea must provide detained foreign nationals with access to consular services a...
Vatican to host high-level push against nuclear weapons
Oct 30, 2017 (AFP)
Nobel peace laureates as well as top United Nations and NATO officials will take part in the meeting on November 10 and 11 in the tiny city state, which will in...
IAEA inspectors in Iran working 'without problem': Amano
Oct 30, 2017 (AFP)
"Our inspectors (in Iran) are discharging their responsibilities without problem," Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told reporters ...
NATO chief calls N. Korea 'global threat' during Japan visit
Oct 30, 2017 (AFP)
Stoltenberg is in Tokyo to meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other senior officials including defence minister Itsunori Onodera later in the day. "We are as co...
Hiroshima survivor to accept Nobel Peace Prize for nuclear watchdog
Oct 28, 2017 (AFP)
More than 62 years after that horrific day, she will jointly accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of this year's laureate, the International Campaign to Aboli...
Mattis warns 'massive' response to North Korea nuclear weapon use
Oct 28, 2017 (AFP)
Pyongyang in recent months has sparked global alarm by conducting a sixth nuclear test and test-launching missiles capable of reaching the US mainland, while Tr...
The devastating tolls of a new Korean war
Oct 27, 2017 (AFP)
Now as well as the South's seat of government, the city is a gleaming hub of technology, K-pop, and plastic surgery, home to 10 million people with even more ag...
US adds sanctions on North Korea for rights abuses
Oct 26, 2017 (AFP)
Amid the ongoing standoff over Pyongyang's threatening nuclear posture towards Japan and the United States, the US Treasury sought to boost pressure by placing ...
Mattis says US 'not rushing to war' with N. Korea
Oct 26, 2017 (AFP)
In recent months the North has staged its sixth nuclear test and fired a flurry of missiles, sparking a fiery war of words between US President Donald Trump and...
Dutch know-how may have gone into arms of mass destruction
Oct 26, 2017 (AFP)
Dutch intelligence services have received "indications in a number of cases" that "Dutch technology was used in programmes of weapons of mass destruction or for...
Iranian sentenced to death for spying; US Navy saves Iran fishing boat from pirates
Oct 25, 2017 (AFP)
Amnesty International on Monday announced that emergency medicine specialist Ahmadreza Djalali, detained in Iran since April 2016, was found guilty of working w...
India shrinks ties with NKorea but will not close embassy
Oct 25, 2017 (AFP)
North Korea was one of a number of key Asian security topics raised by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in New Delhi. The United States has reportedly been u...
Philippines says sanctions strengthen Kim as Chinese, SK defence chiefs meet
Oct 24, 2017 (AFP)
The United States, which has a longstanding defence pact with the Philippines, has led a drive at the UN Security Council to impose tough sanctions against the ...
Iraq PM challenges Tillerson on Iran remarks
Oct 23, 2017 (AFP)
Tillerson, in Riyadh on Sunday, had called on Iranian militias in Iraq to "go home" as the fight against the Islamic State group was ending. His comments prompt...
Abe aims at N. Korea after storming to 'super-majority' vote win
Oct 23, 2017 (AFP)
Fresh from clinching a two-thirds "super-majority" that enables the nationalist premier to realise his dream of revising Japan's pacifist constitution, Abe vowe...
CIA chief: North Korea close to nuke that could hit US
Oct 19, 2017 (AFP)
CIA director Mike Pompeo said President Donald Trump is determined to prevent North Korea from making the breakthrough "whether it happens on Tuesday or a month...
N. Korea cloud has silver lining for South's armsmakers
Oct 19, 2017 (AFP)
South Korea has been one of the world's largest importers of military equipment and technology for decades -- mostly from the US -- but in recent years its dome...
N. Korea sends China Communist Party faint praise
Oct 18, 2017 (AFP)
China is North Korea's longtime ally and economic benefactor, saving the country from defeat during the 1950-53 Korean War. But the relationship has soured in r...
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