Time running out on U.S.-South Korea troop funding talks, envoy says
Washington has compromised in its demands that South Korea should pay billions of dollars toward the U.. troop presence and it was Seoul's turn to reciprocate before time ran out, the American ambassador said Thursday. The two allies are in a security alliance and Washington ...
Biden says no way to unconditional meeting with North Korea's Kim
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he would not meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — who once lambasted Biden as a rabid dog — without "preconditions," as President Donald Trump has done three times. Biden, asked at the evening's ...
European nations launch dispute over Iran's nuclear activity
Britain, France and Germany say they are triggering a dispute mechanism that is part of the nuclear deal with Iran over its failure to live up to terms of the pact. The leaders of the three nations said in a statement Tuesday that they've been ...
The risk of nuclear war is growing
As the NPT turns 50 and Iran goes rogue, game theory shows the world is in peril.
White House reaches out to North Korea in bid to resume nuke talks
White House national security adviser Robert O'Brien has said the United States attempted to contact North Korea in a bid to restart deadlocked nuclear talks, according to an interview published Sunday by news website Axios. "We've reached out to the North Koreans and let them ...
North Korea says Kim Jong Un's relationship with Trump not enough to salvage nuclear talks
Kim Jong Un's personal relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump may not be enough to salvage stalled nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington, a senior North Korean official said Saturday. Kim Kye Gwan, an adviser to the North's Foreign Ministry, said in a statement carried ...
Trump wishes North Korea's Kim a happy birthday, but nuclear talks still on ice
U.S. President Donald Trump has reportedly wished North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a happy birthday via South Korean intermediaries, the first known exchange between the two since their June meeting at the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas. South Korean national security director ...
Motegi to discuss North Korea and other issues with U.S. and South Korean foreign ministers
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi will meet with his U.S. and South Korean counterparts in San Francisco on Tuesday to discuss their cooperation on the denuclearization of North Korea. Motegi's meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha is ...
The U.S. Energy Department has waived a ban on licenses for the export of weapons-grade uranium for making medical isotopes, a move that critics said raises proliferation risks and undermines companies that are converting to safer materials. Highly enriched uranium (HEU) is commonly used to ...
How the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general rekindled Kim Jong Un's worst fears
With the order to kill a top Iranian general last week, U.S. President Donald Trump may have rekindled Kim Jong Un's worst fears while simultaneously cementing the North Korean leader's belief that relinquishing his nuclear arsenal would be tantamount to suicide. The U.S. on Friday ...
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said he intends to visit Hiroshima in August a few days before attending the closing ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics, instead of the opening ceremony, sources close to the matter said Sunday. The plan reflects Guterres' desire to highlight ...
Japan SDF mission in focus after U.S. assassination of top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani
The SDF unit deploying next month was to independently patrol a quiet area south of the Hormuz Strait, but now it might have a target on its back.
