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/ 13 November 2008
North Korea may be hoping to squeeze concessions from the international community, the South’s foreign minister said on Thursday.
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/ 16 October 2008
Destitute North Korea on Thursday threatened to end all relations with South Korea, a major source of aid and cash.
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/ 13 October 2008
Pyongyang has announced plans to allow US and international monitors to resume inspections of nuclear facilities.
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/ 12 October 2008
The US on Saturday removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist in a bid to revive faltering denuclearisation talks.
North Korea barred United Nations monitoring throughout its Yongbyon nuclear complex on Thursday.
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/ 19 September 2008
A North Korean official on Friday dismissed as malicious gossip reports from last week that leader Kim Jong-il may have suffered a stroke.
The risk of a new era of East-West confrontation triggered by Russia’s invasion of Georgia heightened on Friday.
The US State Department said major powers had agreed on Wednesday to consider more United Nations sanctions against Iran.
Iran and the representative of six world powers talked by telephone on Monday over Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme.
The Indian government on Tuesday night survived a knife-edge parliamentary vote of confidence, clearing the way for a landmark nuclear deal.
Iran has been given a fortnight to agree to freeze its uranium-enrichment programme or face further international isolation.
The UN security council has called on Iran to curb uranium enrichment and reprocessing on the grounds that they could be used to make a bomb.
Iran says it will hit Tel Aviv, US shipping in the Gulf and US interests around the world if it is attacked over its disputed nuclear activities.
The head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards has warned that any Israeli or US attack on its nuclear sites would mean the outbreak of war.
Iran is keeping the world guessing about its response to the latest offer to suspend its nuclear programme in return for international incentives.
Iran has warned of a fierce response and higher oil prices if attacked, but also signalled possible progress in a nuclear stand-off with the West.
Israel seems content to keep Iran and the rest of the world guessing uneasily about whether and when it might attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The US on Thursday welcomed a North Korea account of its nuclear activities and said it would remove the country from its terrorism blacklist.
Oil rose for a third straight session on Tuesday to more than a barrel, boosted by a rumoured attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
French President Nicholas Sarkozy on Monday promised his country will always defend the Jewish state against existential threats.
Israel carried out a large-scale military exercise earlier this month as a warning to Iran, Pentagon sources confirmed on Friday.
Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan on Tuesday denied selling blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon to Iran or North Korea.
A nuclear deal proposed by the major powers appeared on Sunday to have widened rifts among Iran’s ruling conservatives.
Top EU diplomat Javier Solana handed Iran an offer by six major powers to try to coax it into halting nuclear work, but Tehran ruled out suspension.
Israel ”will attack” Iran if it continues to develop nuclear weapons, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s deputies warned on Friday.
An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks ”unavoidable”, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s deputies said on Friday.
The United States pressed concerns about Chinese nuclear weapons and space plans in talks between the two powers on Wednesday .
South Africa’s assumption of the United Nations Security Council’s rotating presidency this week could hardly have come at a more contentious time.