NUKE WARS

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'Could be your city': a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor's warning
May 18, 2023 (AFP)
He survived the US nuclear attack and made it home to his mother, but the horror was just beginning. His father, at work closer to the centre of the western Jap...
The second life of Hiroshima's origami cranes
May 17, 2023 (AFP)
For a decade, the Daisho-in Buddhist temple on Miyajima island, facing Hiroshima, has held ritual burnings of the millions of origami cranes sent to the city ea...
Canada, S. Korea to boost economic, security cooperation after leaders meet
May 17, 2023 (AFP)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau -- on his first official visit to South Korea, and the first by a Canadian leader in nearly a decade -- met President Yoon Suk Yeo...
Pressing Russia, US shares nuclear warhead data under treaty
May 16, 2023 (AFP)
The disclosure amounts to a quick shift by the United States, which said in March it would no longer share information under New START, reciprocating the move b...
Japan to push disarmament in Hiroshima, with modest hopes
May 16, 2023 (AFP)
But with North Korea and Russia making nuclear threats, and China growing its arsenal, there may be little appetite for bold action on Prime Minister Fumio Kish...
US releases nuclear warhead stats, presses Russia on New START Treaty
May 16, 2023 (UPI)
In effect since 2011, the New START Treaty seeks to improve national security by limiting the nuclear weapons of the two most heavily nuclear-armed nations on t...
US says Iran and Russia expanding military cooperation
May 15, 2023 (AFP)
Russia, one of the world's top military powers, has been obliged to rely on Iran for supplies as it suffers battlefield losses in its invasion of Ukraine, accor...
French Polynesia nuke tests slightly increased cancer risk: study
May 15, 2023 (AFP)
France carried out 41 atmospheric nuclear weapon tests in French Polynesia between 1966 and 1975, exposing residents to fallout which has been a source of lasti...
Regional cooperation key to countering N. Korea, US army chief says
May 10, 2023 (AFP)
United States army chief of staff James McConville was in Seoul this week for talks with senior South Korean military leaders. He visited the Demilitarised Zone...
Iran urges West not to 'procrastinate' over nuclear deal revival
May 08, 2023 (AFP)
It comes five years after the US withdrew from a 2015 nuclear deal that gave Iran relief from international sanctions in return for curbs on its nuclear program...
Japanese PM in South Korea for landmark summit
May 07, 2023 (AFP)
Kishida is making the first official bilateral visit by a Japanese leader to South Korea in over a decade. He first headed to Seoul's National Cemetery -- where...
Iran leaders slam US presence in Middle East
Apr 29, 2023 (AFP)
Decades-old arch enemies the United States and Iran have vied for influence in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. Both helped ...
Kim Jong Un's sister says US-S. Korea plan risks 'serious danger'
Apr 29, 2023 (AFP)
The United States and South Korea vowed this week that North Korea would face a nuclear response and the "end" of the leadership there should it use its own nuk...
South Korea's Yoon hails US ties at joint meeting of Congress
Apr 27, 2023 (AFP)
Yoon is on a week-long US state visit to mark the 70th anniversary of the friendship, amid saber-rattling from the North, the war in Ukraine and other global ch...
US and S. Korea boost cooperation, but nuclear threat remains
Apr 27, 2023 (AFP)
For years, the United States and the international community have unsuccessfully pushed for North Korea to give up its weapons, which pose a long-running danger...
Biden, Yoon warn North Korea of nuclear response to any attack
Apr 27, 2023 (AFP)
Speaking at the White House after Oval Office talks during only the second state visit so far in the Biden presidency, the two leaders said the US security shie...
China warns US, S. Korea against 'provoking confrontation' with N. Korea
Apr 27, 2023 (AFP)
"All parties should face up to the crux of the (Korean) peninsula issue and play a constructive role in promoting a peaceful settlement of the issue," foreign m...
The 'end' of Kim Jong Un? What the 'Washington Declaration' means
Apr 27, 2023 (AFP)
The stern threat comes as President Yoon Suk Yeol is on a six-day state visit to the United States, where he and his counterpart Joe Biden discussed ramping up ...
China pushes largest-ever expansion of nuclear arsenal
Apr 26, 2023 (AFP)
The SIPRI think tank estimates that China has a stockpile of around 350 nuclear warheads -- small fry when compared with the United States and Russia. But it is...
South Korea's Yoon says peace comes through force, not 'goodwill'
Apr 26, 2023 (AFP)
"Sustainable peace on the Korean peninsula does not happen automatically," Yoon told a joint news conference with President Joe Biden. "We can achieve peace thr...
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