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North Korea invites IAEA, says US deal still in force
North Korea has invited UN inspectors to monitor a nuclear deal with the United States, insisting the pact remains in force despite its shock announcement of an upcoming satellite launch. Next month’s planned launch, which will violate a United Nations resolution, has sparked widespread complaints that the communist state is testing long-range missile technology which [...]
North Korea seeking to develop nuclear missile: South Korea
South Korea accused North Korea Monday of trying to develop a nuclear-armed missile through a satellite launch next month, after Pyongyang dismissed international calls to abandon the exercise. “Our government defines North Korea’s so-called working satellite launch plan as a grave provocation to develop a long-distance delivery means for nuclear weapons by using ballistic missile [...]
US Will Act to Prevent Iran from Developing Nuclear Weapons, Panetta
Iran is America’s greatest concern in the Middle East, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee today. “No greater threat exists to the security of Israel and to the entire region — and indeed to the United States — than a nuclear-armed Iran,” Panetta told the group. He noted the [...]
Global Strike commander: Nuclear deterrence fundamental to national security
The commander of Air Force Global Strike Command visited here recently to discuss the command’s mission and its significance to Air Force operations. Lt. Gen. Jim Kowalski spoke to students from the Air War College, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, and Air Command and Staff College. AFGSC’s role in maintaining strategic stability, deterring [...]
North Korea Takes ‘Positive First Step’ On Nukes, Official Says
The North Korean government has agreed to stop all nuclear activities at its main production and testing plant and to allow the return of inspectors, in a move a Defense Department official described as a positive step toward denuclearization of the communist state. The North Korean leadership’s decision “is a positive first step toward complete [...]
China backs US-North Korea nuclear freeze deal
China Thursday welcomed North Korea’s agreement to freeze nuclear activities in return for US food aid, a deal that raised cautious hopes of an easing of tensions under Pyongyang’s new young leader. South Korea and Japan also hailed the North’s commitment to suspend its uranium enrichment programme along with nuclear and long-range missile tests, and [...]
Iran pushes on with nuclear after failed IAEA visit
Iran’s nuclear work will defiantly go on, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday, after UN inspectors left Tehran following talks that failed to lift their suspicions of atomic weapons research. “The Iranian nation has never been seeking an atomic weapon and never will be. It will prove to the world that a nuclear [...]
Iran says its nuclear activities non-negotiable
Iran said on Tuesday it views its nuclear activities as a non-negotiable right, but confirmed they will be discussed in mooted talks with world powers aimed at defusing a crisis containing the seeds of a new Middle East war. “The issue of our country’s peaceful nuclear activities will be on the agenda of talks between [...]
Budget Proposal Strengthens Nuclear Modernization, Official Says
The Defense Department’s strategy-based budget proposal sent to Congress earlier this week would strengthen the nation’s nuclear weapons enterprise and modernization, a senior Pentagon official said here yesterday. “We’ve come a long way in the past three years in establishing the context and the programs for nuclear modernization, but significant challenges remain,” John Harvey, principal [...]
