Nuclear weapons
Trump, North Korean leader to hold 2nd summit
President Donald Trump will hold a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to broker a deal to coax the North to give up its nuclear program, the White House announced Friday. News of a second meeting ...
Update: 2nd summit on agenda in US-North Korea talks
The Latest on U.S.-North Korea talks (all times local): 11:15 a.m. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (pahm-PAY'-oh) and North Korea's former spy chief have begun their highly anticipated meeting aimed at resuming efforts to end the North's nuclear weapons program. They hope to ...
Activists want details on inquiry into ex-nuke weapons plant
Activists asked a U.S. judge Thursday to make documents public from a 27-year-old criminal investigation into a former nuclear weapons plant outside Denver with a history of fires, leaks and spills.The activists said the documents could show whether the federal ...
Iran says it will send 2 satellites to orbit amid US concern
Iran's president said Thursday the Islamic Republic soon will send two new satellites into orbit using Iran-made rockets, despite U.S. concern the launch could help further develop its ballistic missiles. President Hassan Rouhani's comments, during a commemoration for the late President ...
S.Korea wants sanction exemptions to restart N.Korea projects
South Korean President Moon Jae-in suggested Thursday that he'll push for sanction exemptions to restart dormant economic cooperation projects with North Korea. The comments, if pursued before South Korea's ally Washington is ready, could weaken ties with the United States and ...
Iran, Islamic State on agenda as Pompeo visits Middle East
The US Secretary of State is seeking support for further pressuring Iran to change its behavior
Trump says he’s ready to meet again with North Korean leader
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has received a letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and will be setting up a meeting with Kim "in the not-too-distant future" to restart talks about the North's nuclear programs. "He'd like ...
4 ideas from N.Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s speech
Looking almost banker-like in a business suit and sitting in an upholstered leather armchair, Kim Jong Un gave his annual televised New Year's address on Tuesday. The North Korean leader's big curtain-raiser for 2019 comes after a couple of very tumultuous ...
N. Korea says it won’t denuclearize unless US removes threat
North Korea said Thursday it will never unilaterally give up its nuclear weapons unless the United States removes its nuclear threat first, a statement that raises further doubts on whether leader Kim Jong Un will ever relinquish an arsenal he ...
UN condemns North Korea rights violations and nuke spending
The U.N. General Assembly on Monday condemned North Korea's "systematic, widespread and gross violations of human rights" and its diversion of resources into pursing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles over the welfare of its people. It noted "with concern" that over ...
Pentagon: NKorea slow to negotiate over US war remains
Months after the White House raised hopes for bringing home thousands of U.S. battlefield remains from North Korea, the returns have stalled. Detailed negotiations on future recovery arrangements have not even begun.The slower pace appears linked to the more talked-about ...
North Korea tells China it’s committed to denuclearization
North Korea's foreign minister said his country remains committed to ending its nuclear weapons program in talks Friday with his Chinese counterpart, according to China's foreign ministry.The talks in Beijing between Ri Yong Ho and Wang Yi came amid a ...
S. Korea abuzz about N. Korean leader Kim’s possible trip
Day after day, rampant speculation about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's possible trip to Seoul is making headlines in South Korea, despite no official confirmation from either government.Many analysts say it would be extremely difficult for Kim to fulfill ...
Sanctions exemption for Korean rail survey seen as move to spur denuclearization
South Korea's requested relief facilitates an effort to link railways between the two Koreas
Russian lawmakers ask Kremlin to review nuclear doctrine
A group of Russian lawmakers have asked the Kremlin to review the nation's rules for the use of nuclear weapons, amid tensions with the West.Participants in Wednesday's hearings organized by the upper house's defense committee suggested that the presidential Security ...
Group calls for bigger Seoul role in tackling TB in NKorea
A U.S.-based nonprofit group has called for South Korea to take stronger steps to fight a tuberculosis crisis in North Korea it says has worsened under strengthened U.S.-led sanctions over its nuclear weapons and missile program.Stephen Linton, chairman of the ...
North Korea says it has tested ‘ultramodern tactical weapon’
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observed the successful test of "a newly developed ultramodern tactical weapon," the nation's state media reported Friday, though it didn't describe what sort of weapon it was. It didn't appear to be a nuclear or ...
Running on Empty? Kim Jong Un’s struggle to fuel his economy
Twenty-plus years after North Korean leader Kim Jong Il almost bargained nuclear weapons away for a pair of nuclear reactors, his son Kim Jong Un still has a nation plagued by chronic blackouts. That is the North's Achilles heel as Kim ...
US Advocates of Isolating Iran Say Trump’s Sanctions to Get Tougher
Sanctions hitting Iran's energy and banking sectors
US Reimposes Sanctions on Iran’s Oil, Financial Sectors
President Trump ordered the measures after abandoning the international deal that limited Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief
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