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NUCLEAR WEAPONS

COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2016
An end to 'business as usual'
Pyongyang's latest nuclear test should prompt both China and the U.S. to reexamine their policies toward North Korea.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 23, 2016
U.S. hopes to talk with China about possible THAAD move to South Korea
The United States hopes to talk with China and address its concerns about the possible deployment of the THAAD missile defense system that Washington is discussing with Seoul, a senior State Department official said Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 20, 2016
Can cultural engagement soften North Korea's hard-line stance?
After years of provocations, talks, promises and broken vows — a pattern that Pyongyang has mastered — the atmosphere on the Korean Peninsula remains highly charged and little changed.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 18, 2016
Tokyo condemns latest North Korean missile tests
North Korea fires two missiles into the Sea of Japan just days after the defiant Kim Jong Un threatens to carry out more nuclear tests and missile launches.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 15, 2016
Sanctions won't stop Pyongyang
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's grim fate reinforced North Korea's believe that the only way to deter an outside attack would be to have nuclear weapons.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 15, 2016
Why the world must live with a nuclear North Korea
It is inconceivable that Kim Jong Un would give up the weapon that places his nation in the exclusive nuclear club, and sanctions won't force him to do so.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 15, 2016
Despite new sanctions, North Korea plans to conduct nuclear, missile tests soon: Kim
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country will soon conduct a nuclear warhead test and a test launch of ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the North's official KCNA news agency reported Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 13, 2016
U.S. serves up Korean 'rocket salad' in war drill response to North's threats
There's more to do in South Korea's heavily forested Rocket Valley, just a few kilometers from the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, than fire rockets. In quieter times, people tend vegetable patches along ice-cold streams.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 11, 2016
North Korean nuclear test shook the earth — but where's the proper proof?
Two months after what is widely believed to have been a nuclear test by North Korea, the radioactive particles to prove it have yet to be detected, suggesting the communist state is getting better at hiding the fallout, experts say.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 11, 2016
U.S. may need more missile defenses to counter growing threat: admiral
Current U.S. missile defenses can counter an attack on U.S. territory by North Korea or Iran but Washington will have to boost its response capacity if those countries keep expanding their missile forces, a top U.S. admiral said on Thursday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 10, 2016
China, South Korea step up sanctions on North Korea
China has barred a North Korean freighter from one of its ports and South Korea announced a crackdown on individuals and companies linked to Pyongyang's weapons program, stepping up sanctions against the isolated state.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 9, 2016
China-made truck used by North Korea in new artillery system
North Korea is using Chinese-made trucks in a new mobile artillery system showcased five days ago, according to photographs reviewed by Reuters, underlining the difficulty in enforcing U.N. sanctions against the isolated state.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 9, 2016
Kim says North Korea has mastered nuclear warhead minaturization
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has asserted for the first time that Pyongyang can field nuclear-tipped missiles, state media reported Wednesday. A North Korean newspaper printed photographs of him meeting staff at a missile facility with a spherical silver object on a stand that appeared to be a mock-up...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 8, 2016
Should Seoul go nuclear?
Maybe it's time for the good guys in Northeast Asia to be armed with nuclear weapons as well.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 27, 2016
Iran counts votes in election to determine post-sanctions balance of power
Iran began counting votes on Saturday after elections that could see reformists accelerate Tehran's opening to the world or long-dominant hardliners reaffirm the Islamic Republic's traditional anti-Western stance.
WORLD
Feb 26, 2016
U.S. test-fires missile amid debate about upgrades to aging nuclear arsenal
The U.S. military planned to test-fire its second intercontinental ballistic missile in a week overnight on Thursday to demonstrate the reliability of American nuclear arms at a time of rising strategic tensions with countries like Russia and North Korea.

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