NUKE WARS

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Pentagon chief says US admin backs Tillerson's North Korea effort
Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)
Defense Secretary Mattis was speaking two days after President Donald Trump appeared to undermine his top diplomat by saying Tillerson was "wasting his time" by...
North Korea's Kim 'very rational': CIA
Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)
"Beyond the bluster, Kim Jong-Un is a rational actor," said Yong Suk Lee, the deputy assistant director of the CIA's Korea Mission Center. "We have a tendency i...
Nuclear accord with Iran in US interest: Mattis
Oct 03, 2017 (AFP)
Mattis's expression of support for the 2015 agreement curbing Iran's nuclear program was in sharp contrast with Trump's blunt assessment that the deal is an "em...
US and North Korea: To talk or not to talk?
Oct 02, 2017 (AFP)
Until this weekend, Washington's plan to counter Kim Jong-Un's increasingly sophisticated nuclear arsenal seemed to be to employ sanctions and diplomatic pressu...
Thinking the unthinkable in China: Abandoning North Korea
Oct 01, 2017 (AFP)
While China's official goal is to bring Washington and Pyongyang to the negotiating table, it is also permitting once taboo debate on contingencies in case war ...
Negotiating with North Korea a waste of time: Trump
Oct 01, 2017 (AFP)
Only hours after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson revealed that US officials are in exploratory contact with their North Korean counterparts, Trump appeared to ...
Norway agrees to host Israeli nuclear whistleblower
Oct 01, 2017 (AFP)
"We made a request for family reunification as that's exactly the case here, for spouses and a family to be able to live together," Kristin Joachimsen told TV2 ...
Iran's Zarif urges Europe to defy Trump on sanctions
Sep 30, 2017 (AFP)
In an interview published Saturday by Britain's Guardian newspaper, Zarif said Iran would develop much more advanced nuclear technology -- though not for weapon...
N. Korean firms in China ordered to close by January
Sep 28, 2017 (AFP)
The commerce ministry said the companies, including joint ventures with Chinese firms, have 120 days to close from the date the United Nations resolution was ad...
2017 Nobels to turn page on Dylan, anti-nuke buzz for peace prize
Sep 28, 2017 (AFP)
Down the years, from Rudyard Kipling to Dylan, from the founder of the Red Cross to Barack Obama and Albert Einstein, a total of 911 men, women and organisation...
US presses for more Iran nuclear inspections
Sep 28, 2017 (AFP)
US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said that some countries were trying to shield Iran from more inspections by the IAEA, which is charged with v...
Trump Twitter tirades deepen Asia alarm over conflict risk
Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)
Observers say the US president's fondness for Twitter diplomacy is creating a situation ripe for dangerous misunderstandings as he pursues an increasingly perso...
Trump ignores pleas to calm North Korea tensions
Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)
Trump urged nations to "isolate the North Korean menace" as his administration introduced new sanctions and warned that its "nuclear weapons and missile develop...
US wants diplomatic end to N. Korea crisis: Mattis
Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)
"We maintain the capability to deter North Korea's most dangerous threats but also to back up our diplomats in a manner that keeps this as long as possible in t...
US wants diplomatic fix for North Korea crisis: Mattis
Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)
Tensions have soared after Pyongyang claimed the United States had declared war against it and threatened to shoot down US bombers, in an escalating spat betwee...
US labels N. Korea 'war' claim absurd, as Pyongyang boosts defences
Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)
Speaking to reporters outside his New York hotel, Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho responded to Trump tweeting at the weekend that North Korea's leadership "won't be...
Russia Conducts Test Launch of RS-24 Yars ICBM
Sep 25, 2017 (Sputnik)
"On September 20, a test launch of the solid-fuel mobile intercontinental ballistic missile RS-24 Yars equipped with a multiple independently targeted reentry v...
Iran says Trump claims of North Korea links 'nonsense'
Sep 25, 2017 (AFP)
Foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi was responding to a tweet by Trump over the weekend in which the US president wrote: "Iran just test-fired a Ballistic...
Chinese traders get down to business at Pyongyang trade show
Sep 25, 2017 (AFP)
Eight sets of progressively tighter United Nations Security Council sanctions imposed on Pyongyang over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes have left i...
Lavrov says US will not strike North Korea
Sep 24, 2017 (AFP)
"The Americans won't carry out a strike on (North) Korea because it's not that they suspect, they know for sure that it has nuclear bombs," Lavrov said in an in...
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