North Korea said that it will continue to bolster its nuclear capabilities and slammed the U.S. for bringing in strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula.
The country’s top official for U.S. affairs dismissed criticism over Wednesday’s missile launch and said that Pyongyang’s real provocation was coming from Washington.
Beijing will stop the export of technology and materials with potential military use to North Korea, in compliance with U.N. sanctions.
China is seen as leading opposition to a U.S. move to include India in the 48-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group.
A U.S. assessment came a day after the U.N. nuclear watchdog said it had “indications” Pyongyang has reactivated a plutonium plant.
There have been indications that the Yongbyon plant is processing spent fuel, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency said.
The Treasury Department called Pyongyang a “primary money laundering concern,” and announced new restrictions to cut access to global banking systems.
The U.S. president culminated his trip to Japan with a historic visit to Hiroshima, which was targeted by an American atomic bomb, saying: “The memory of the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, must never fade.”
The comments by the Japanese prime minister come ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama’s historic trip to Hiroshima later this week.
The longtime priest's efforts against the Vietnam War during the late 1960s landed him in a federal prison in 1970.
The hypersonic Zircon missiles will reportedly travel at five or six times the speed of sound.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made the comments in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, which was devastated by an atomic bomb.
North Korea’s latest nuclear and missile tests have reignited the debate over whether Seoul should develop its own nuclear weapons instead of depending on U.S.'s assistance.
Russia has continued to build its arsenal despite an agreement with the U.S. to reduce stockpiles by 2018.
The GOP candidate “doesn’t know much about foreign policy ... or the world generally,” the president said after Trump suggested that Japan and South Korea should have nuclear weapons.
A raid on a Brussels apartment belonging to a man with alleged links to the Islamic State group turned up alarming video footage.
The U.S. was prepared to abandon its demand that North Korea reduce its nuclear arsenal before the beginning of talks that could have formally concluded the Korean War.
Although there is no evidence that the missing iridium has fallen into the hands of the Islamic State group, officials fear ISIS may try to build a nuclear weapon from the material.
The United States has reportedly been talking with South Korea about sending bombers and submarines.
South Korea is on high alert following a supposed hydrogen bomb test from North Korea.
Preventing trade with the country has hurt its economy, but the real victims are civilians — making it hard for the world to gain leverage.
While the test would be North Korea’s fourth test in ten years if the news is accurate, the history of the North’s nuclear weapons program can be traced back to the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung.