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US, Japan, South Korea hold urgent talks after North Korean missile barrage
North Korea launched approximately 10 short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Thursday, prompting urgent trilateral consultations among the United States, South Korea, and Japan just one day after Pyongyang dismissed President Donald Trump's scaled-back military exercises as meaningless.
Trump says he plans to meet Kim Jong Un this year
President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday that he intends to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year, disclosing that Pyongyang possesses "57 very powerful nuclear weapons" and describing their personal relationship as a strategic asset. The announcement came…
South Korea’s Lee calls for stronger self-defense after Trump cuts drills
President Donald Trump threw annual US-South Korea military exercises into disarray on Sunday when he ordered the Pentagon to "substantially reduce" the Ulchi Freedom Shield drills, citing his "very good relationship" with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and frustration…
U.S. intel finds Iran’s new leader more open to nuclear weapons
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is more open to pursuing nuclear weapons than his late father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a report by The New York Times published Thursday. The assessment comes as…
Trump warns U.S. will hit Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain ‘pretty soon’
President Donald Trump on Tuesday escalated his threats against Iran's deeply buried Pickaxe Mountain nuclear complex, warning that the site would be struck "pretty soon" and "very heavily," according to Anadolu Agency. The remarks came on the tenth consecutive day…
Trump leans toward ground troops in Iran as strikes intensify
President Trump is leaning toward expanding U.S. military operations against Iran, including the possible use of ground troops, after being briefed this week on a range of escalatory options that include bombing the underground nuclear facility known as Pickaxe Mountain,…
Zelenskyy says China warned Russia against nuclear use
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy disclosed on Wednesday that China has delivered a firm, "ultimatum"-style warning to Russia against any use of nuclear weapons, marking what he described as Beijing's most unequivocal stance on the issue since the start of the…
Trump warns Iran to accept deal or US will ‘finish the job’
President Donald Trump on Monday renewed his threat of military action against Iran, warning that the United States would either reach a deal with Tehran or destroy what remains of the country's infrastructure. The remarks came as U.S.-Iran negotiations are…
China test-fires ballistic missile from sub in South Pacific
China's military test-launched a long-range ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine in the South Pacific on Monday, prompting sharp criticism from Australia, New Zealand, and Japan over what they called a destabilizing act in a region governed by a nuclear-free…
Kim commissions North Korea’s largest warship, pledges nuclear navy
North Korea formally commissioned the 5,000-ton destroyer Choe Hyon on Tuesday at the western port city of Nampho, with leader Kim Jong Un declaring that the country's program to equip its navy with nuclear weapons is proceeding "unerringly," according to…
Kim Jong Un calls for ‘exponential’ nuclear expansion
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited a newly operational nuclear material production facility and called for an "exponential" expansion of the country's atomic arsenal, state media KCNA reported on Wednesday. The announcement marks a fresh escalation in Pyongyang's nuclear…
China building 80-plus launch pads near nuclear silos
China is constructing a sprawling network of launch pads, bunkers, and communications nodes near its nuclear missile silos in the remote deserts of its northwest, according to a Reuters analysis of satellite imagery published on Thursday.
Russia developing seabed nuclear missiles, German investigation finds
NATO intelligence services have been closely tracking Russia's Northern Fleet amid growing concerns that Moscow is advancing a secret program to deploy nuclear-armed missiles on the Arctic Ocean seabed, according to an investigation published on May 21 by German public…
North Korea declares it is not bound by nuclear treaty
North Korea's top United Nations diplomat declared on Thursday that Pyongyang is not bound by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty under any circumstances, reinforcing the country's insistence on being recognized as a nuclear weapons state during a major international conference in…
North Korea drops reunification from constitution, codifies Kim’s nuclear authority
North Korea has revised its constitution to remove all references to reunification with South Korea, formally codifying leader Kim Jong Un's doctrine of treating the two Koreas as hostile, separate states, according to a draft of the amended text reviewed…
Iran’s nuclear timeline unchanged despite war, US intel finds
Two months into a U.S.-led military campaign against Iran, American intelligence assessments indicate that the time Tehran would need to build a nuclear weapon has not shifted since last summer, when a joint U.S.-Israeli strike extended the timeline to roughly…
Bigelow returns with nuclear thriller after 8 years
Director Kathryn Bigelow made a triumphant return to the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday with her first feature film in eight years, "A House of Dynamite," a nuclear thriller that received an enthusiastic 11-minute standing ovation from audiences. The film,…