Late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had ordered the production of enriched uranium and plutonium nuclear weapons during his reign, reported the Japanese media, citing internal documents of the North Korean regime.
Following an extended game of chicken, the Obama administration granted China and Singapore an exception to the Iranian oil sanctions, senior White House officials said Thursday.
Worries about present-day issues overshadowed unsavory history this week as Russian President Vladimir Putin made a 24-hour whirlwind visit to Israel.
South Korea announced it will halt imports of Iranian crude oil as the European Union's ban on insuring oil shipments from Iran comes into effect toward the end of the month.
The president even told his senior aides that he had ?the least power to prevent? the potential collapse of Pakistan.
Regardless of whether you give credence to doomsday prophecies, there are some slightly credible scenarios in which the world will end -- either with a bang or with a whimper.
On the second and final day of negotiations in Moscow, diplomats said there was still no agreement between six world powers -- U.S., Russia, China, Germany, France and Britain -- and Iran over Tehran's alleged nuclear weapons program.
Iran has been suspected of developing nuclear weapons, and the world powers in the Russian capital will spend two days trying to get Tehran to stop the enrichment and storage of uranium to 20 percent and open a secret military facility to United Nations inspectors.
Japanese Premier Yoshihiko Noda on Saturday announced the restart of two nuclear reactors, for the first time since the closure of all of country's nuclear power plants following last year's Fukushima crisis, disregarding the widespread public opposition to nuclear power.
South Korea and the West are concerned that North Korea is determined to develop nuclear weapons
Iran also said Tuesday that it had begun the overhaul of one of the three Russian-made nuclear-powered submarines in its fleet despite Moscow rejecting Tehran's requests for help with the remodeling, Iran's Fars News Agency reported.
North Korea said Saturday it had no plans to conduct a third nuclear test, but lashed out at South for trying to rattle its nerves.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, meeting in Beijing, offered statements of support for Teheran. That's bad news for American, and Western, influence in Central Asia
Iran has once again criticized nuclear watchdog group the International Atomic Energy Agency, this time for acting like an intelligence organization.
Iran has accused the U.N. nuclear inspectors of spying for Western powers and said it would continue to enrich uranium as negotiations in Moscow approach with the aim of scaling back Teheran's nuclear energy program.
A new report on Germany's delivery of nuclear-capable submarines to Israel is raising important questions about the two countries' relationship.
The U.S. has been carrying out secret cyberattacks on Iran's nuclear facilities. President Barack Obama sped things up within his first month in office.
There have been a lot of talks regarding the involvement of the United States and Israel behind a Stuxnet cyber attack, but with no concrete evidence to confirm the same. However, a latest report tends to claim that the US has indeed played a crucial role in that matter.
The rise of private space companies and foreign space programs, combined with an interest in lunar mining, is likely to bring the issue of extraterrestrial property rights into focus in the next few decades.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog showed new satellite imagery on Wednesday indicating that Iranmay be cleaning a site where inspectors suspect it has carried out tests relevant to developing atomic bombs, participants at a closed-door briefing said.
Iran announced it will continue enriching high grade uranium while adding a nuclear power plant in 2014 and rebuffed calls to allow U.N. inspectors to visit the suspected home of the country's nuclear weapons research.
Iran will not compromise on the West's demand to stop enriching Uranium to 20 percent, said Fereydoon Abbasi Davani head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization.
