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A new Pentagon report predicts that China will “at least double” the size of its nuclear warhead stockpile over the next decade as it pursues its own nuclear triad to conduct nuclear strikes by land, sea and air. China’s modernization and expansion of its nuclear force is part of a broader effort aimed at matching,…
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U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun arrived in Beijing on Thursday on a previously unannounced two-day trip, reported Yonhap. This comes after the Special Representative during his visit to Seoul, offered to meet North Korean officials. But the North has not responded to Biegun’s offer, at least publicly, Yonhap reported. Biegun, who arrived…
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Iran will never succumb to U.S. pressure, and if Washington wants talks with Tehran it should show respect, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday. Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen sharply in recent weeks, a year after Washington exited a 2015 deal between Iran and world powers that curbed Tehran’s nuclear program…
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Stephen Biegun, the U.S. special representative for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) policy, met with Chung Eui-yong, top national security adviser for Republic of Korea’s (ROK’s) President Moon Jae-in, on Monday according to the presidential Blue House. Chung and Biegun met for about an hour from 4 p.m. local time (0700 GMT) at…
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U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that it’s “most likely” he will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un again following their historic summit in June, according to a news report. Image shows Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump Trump was responding to a question during an interview with Reuters about whether the two are…
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The top three military officials in North Korea have been dismissed from their positions, according to a senior US official cited by Reuters, and analysts see the move as an effort from Kim Jong Un to jump-start economic development and engage with the world. Kim Jong Un is due to meet with US President Donald…
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One day after abruptly pulling the plug on a high-stakes summit with North Korea, US President Donald Trump said Friday the meeting with Kim Jong Un could go ahead after all — and would “likely” happen on the originally scheduled date of June 12. Image: Donald Trump The summit would be an unprecedented meeting between…
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President Trump has cancelled the upcoming summit between the United States and the North Koreans in a new letter released on Thursday. President Trump and Kim Jong Un’s doppelgangers Mr. Trump writes in the letter that he was “very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open…
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United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has thanked Singapore for agreeing to host the unprecedented US-North Korea summit, planned to take place in June 2018. Responding to the remarks in a telephone telephone conversation, Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan congratulated Mr Pompeo, who was sworn in on April 26 after holding position as a Central Intelligence Agency…
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Israel’s parliament, or Knesset, voted Monday in favor of a bill that would allow the country’s prime minister to declare war in ‘extreme situations’, the Haaretz daily reported. The prime minister will only need the defense minister’s approval, it said. The report did not say how many lawmakers voted in favor of the bill. Prime…
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is set to close its Punggye-ri nuclear site in May and publicly dismantle it, Yonhap reported, citing the presidential office of the Republic of Korea (ROK) on Sunday. The DPRK leader Kim Jong Un said there is no need to have nukes if the US “formally ends war”…
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Despite threats from Iran, a possible push from France on behalf of European allies and some of his own experts warning against it, the U.S. President Donald Trump has not made any indications of changing his opinion about pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal. Image shows Trump and Rouhani The 2015 deal called the Joint…
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In what came as a potentially historic breakthrough, South Korean officials announced on Tuesday that following peace talks, North Korea had offered to freeze its illicit nuclear weapons program. Image shows impersonators at the Winter Olympics Officials in Seoul said that North Korea was willing to engage in talks with the U.S. and had agreed…
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Winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Beatrice Fihn, told newsmen at a press conference in New York that the United Nations will continue in its effort to eliminate nuclear weapons, and urged nations to embrace the organization’s Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Image shows Beatrice Finn (center) at the UN event in New…
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North Korea’s growing influence as a nuclear power in the peninsula has been a matter of urgent concern to South Korea, the US, Russia and the continent’s mouthpiece, China. But Pyongyang is hell-bent on reaching its military targets at all costs. Image shows North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un (Right). Xi Jinping’s government understands the imminent danger posed…
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