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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 9, 2016
'I am not your minder,' and other mistakes made in North Korea
At least 130 foreign journalists traveled to Pyongyang to cover the first full congress of North Korea's ruling party in 36 years.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 7, 2016
Nobel laureates visit North Korea, meet with students at elite Pyongyang universities
A group of Nobel laureates visited sanctions-bound North Korea over the last week despite objections from South Korea, saying they wanted to extend an olive branch by bringing nonpolitical, academic diplomacy to the isolated nuclear-armed state.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 7, 2016
Images show North Korea may be preparing fifth nuke test: think tank
Satellite imagery taken Thursday — just a day before North Korea kicked off a key summit of the country's ruling party — shows that Pyongyang may be preparing to conduct its fifth nuclear test "in the near future," a U.S. think tank said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 6, 2016
Moral imperative of ridding the world of nuclear arms
Many countries have started to advance toward the shared goal of a world free from nuclear weapons. What is needed now is to breathe new energizing life into that vision.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 6, 2016
Pyongyang skyline changes shape despite sanctions
The Pyongyang skyline is rising — and not just with the trophy structures that represent the North Korean state. Despite its political and economic isolation, the capital is in the midst of a building boom.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 3, 2016
North Korea party congress set to be Kim's coronation
As its "70-day campaign of loyalty" wraps up, North Korea on Friday will hold its first Workers' Party Congress in nearly 40 years, with young Kim Jong Un looking to cement his position as the country's supreme leader — showing his people and the world who's in charge.
EDITORIALS
May 3, 2016
North Korea's political logic
The North Korean regime uses provocations to survive, and the upcoming party congress will applaud the leadership for being so 'shrewd.'
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 2, 2016
Aussie desire for nuclear option may have sunk Japanese sub bid
Japan reportedly lost the strategically important Australian submarine deal in part because the designs proposed by France can easily be refitted for nuclear propulsion.
COMMENTARY / World
May 2, 2016
Ban nuclear-weapons tests
Just as leaders have cooperated at the Nuclear Security Summit to prevent nuclear terrorism, we need renewed cooperation and leadership to end nuclear testing once and for all.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 1, 2016
Ahead of rare North Korea Congress, money trumps party for most
Kim Dan-bi's brother is the model of the establishment North Korean: an army veteran and member of the ruling Workers' Party, he is now a manager at a state enterprise.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 30, 2016
North Korea tightens security ahead of party congress
North Korea has tightened security ahead of its ruling party's congress, South Korea said Friday, with authorities keen to avoid any "mishap" at the gathering, at which advances in the drive for nuclear weapons will likely be hailed.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 28, 2016
Georgia detains five suspected of selling uranium
The security service in the former Soviet republic of Georgia said on Thursday it had detained five Georgian citizens who were trying to sell $3 million worth of radioactive uranium.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2016
Chernobyl's lessons unlearned
No post-Soviet leaders seem to have drawn the right conclusions from the Chernobyl tragedy that took place 30 years ago this week.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2016
The next nuclear disaster may be intentional
Nuclear reactors are likely terrorist targets and not enough is being done to protect them.

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