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NUCLEAR

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Apr 1, 2018
K-pop stars turn diplomatic envoys with concert dates in North Korea
They won over buttoned-up investors at a banking conference with their jingles about teenage love, but the K-pop girl band Red Velvet is about to face what may be its toughest audience yet: North Korea.
EDITORIALS
Apr 1, 2018
Reassess the economics of nuclear power
Tightened safety regulations and market conditions in the aftermath of the Fukushima crisis are imposing a heavy financial burden on nuclear power plants.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 29, 2018
Pyongyang has discussed possibility of holding Abe-Kim Jong Un summit in June: report
The Asahi Shimbun cited an unidentified North Korean source regarding the potential talks.
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Mar 29, 2018
How will Kim tell his country he's ready to give up nuclear arms?
State media calls North Korea's nuclear weapons a "treasured sword of justice."
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Mar 28, 2018
With historic meeting of leaders, North Korea and China shore up leverage as Kim-Trump talks loom
North Korea and China secured major diplomatic victories — and possibly more — this week with leader Kim Jong Un's visit to Beijing, a move that bolsters Pyongyang's leverage ahead of talks with Washington and returns Beijing to its role as a central player in the nuclear crisis roiling the Korean...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 28, 2018
Mystery no more: North Korea's Kim meets Xi, says he's 'willing' to talk with Trump
North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong Un, has made an unannounced visit to China at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, state media confirmed Wednesday, apparently saying for the first time just weeks before a possible meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump that he is "willing" to sit down...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 27, 2018
Speculation on Kim visit to China rife as train departs
A train believed to be carrying a senior North Korean delegation left the Chinese capital on Tuesday following a dramatic whirlwind visit that some reports said included the country's leader, Kim Jong Un.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Mar 27, 2018
Kim Jong Un and John Bolton take different lessons from Libya and Gadhafi's fall
The last remnants of Libya's nuclear program were loaded onto an aircraft in 2009 and shipped out of the country, part of a U.S.-brokered deal with dictator Moammar Gadhafi to disarm in return for sanctions relief. Two years later, NATO-backed rebels brutally killed him.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Mar 26, 2018
Nuclear power plant construction in Britain: A bottomless swamp
Hitachi Ltd. and other Japanese firms are making risky bets on nuclear power plant construction in Britain.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Mar 24, 2018
World debates what action to take over North Korea
Nine years after then-U.S President Barack Obama committed America to the pursuit of "a world without nuclear weapons," nine months after the U.N. adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and five months after the Nobel Peace Prize Committee conferred one of the world's highest honors...

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