War News Updates (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Fire-fighters wearing protective gear take part in an anti-terrorism drill against possible attacks from North Korea in Seoul November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Choi Bu-Seok N.Korea Says Has Made More Arms-Grade Plutonium -- Yahoo News/Reuters SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Tuesday it had completed reprocessing spent fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant and turned it into arms-grade plutonium,...
Politics and Finance (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
North Korea Wants A Little Attention Too Iran is all about the nukes. Do they have them? What is their intention with them? Will they stop developing them? Will our "allies" support action against them? Diplomacy, sanctions or force? Will China go along with any of them? Will Israel be forced to take the nuclear installations out unilaterally? You get the idea. United Nations, IAEA and the...
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
The western imperialist countries have accused the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) of using satellite technology for nuclear weapons research. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Saturday, October 10, 2009 11:55 Mecca time, 08:55 GMT Three-way summit on N Korea begins The trilateral summit seeks to woo North Korea back to nuclear disarmament negotiations China, Japan...
Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Prepare to fight China, Qaeda figure tells Uighurs [Washington Post] "A prominent al Qaeda militant urged Uighurs in Xianjiang to make serious preparations for a holy war against "oppressive" China and called on fellow Muslims to offer support. Abu Yahya al-Libi, in a video posted on an Islamist website on Wednesday, warned China of a fate similar to that of former communist superpower,...
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Wen Jiabao and Kim Jong-Il during a Chinese state visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). The DPRK is demanding direct talks with the US over major issues. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos North Korea 'may return to talks' North Korea says it may be willing to return to six-party international talks on its nuclear weapons programme, state media have reported....
Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
THE DEPROLIFERATOR — President Obama’s appearance at the United Nations this week was intended as a show with a sideshow. First, he became the first U.S. president to chair an “extraordinary” session of the Security Council, with the nations represented not by diplomats but by actual heads of state, not diplomats. The council approved President Obama’s resolution legalizing...
Best of Both Worlds (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
In an announcement that will trigger further criticism of Barack Obama's alleged lack of enthusiasm for reining in rogue states -- The President has asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to lead the U.S. delegation and deliver the U.S. national statement at the Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), to be held on September 24 and 25 in...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
The United States said it was prepared to accept North Korea's offer for direct talks in an effort to persuade it to return to international nuclear disarmament negotiations. State Department spokesman PJ Crowley told reporters that no decision has been made on when or where such a meeting would happen. He also insisted that there has been no shift from previous US statements that Washington would...
CNN (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
In a dramatic policy shift, the Obama administration on Friday said it is willing to engage directly with North Korea as a way to bring the reclusive regime back to six-nation talks aimed at ending its nuclear ambitions. North Korea pulled out of the six-party talks in April, protesting condemnation at the United Nations over its nuclear test and missile launches.
CNSNews (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
If the U.S. and eight other specified countries including India, Iran and North Korea do not ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), it cannot go into force.
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Missile launch in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on April 5, 2009. The People's Republic of China urged calm while the US administration sought to promote alarm and condemnation. The DPRK conducted an underground nuclear test on May 25. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Friday, September 04, 2009 12:19 Mecca time, 09:19 GMT N Korea 'at final uranium stage' US...
What Really happened (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
North Korea said Friday it has entered the final phase of uranium enrichment for nuclear weapons and is also building more bombs with spent reactor fuel rods. After the United Nations imposed tougher sanctions in June following its May 25 nuclear test, the North vowed to start such a programme and to extract plutonium from fuel rods. WRH permalink
SAILORS, MARINERS & WARRIORS LEAGUE (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
As many as 10 containers full of North Korean weapons were found on an Australian cargo ship bound for Iran - and the crew say they were horrified to discover they had been living with a highly explosive cargo. Australian officials are investigating the discovery of the arms, which are believed to have included rocket-propelled grenades, on the ANL Australia by customs officers in the United Arab Emirates....
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
The United Arab Emirates has seized a ship carrying North Korean weapons to Iran in violation of a United Nations arms embargo imposed after Pyongyang's nuclear test in May, Yonhap News reported on Aug. 29 in its dispatch from New York quoting UN diplomatic sources as having said on Aug. 28."The UAE government has notified the U.N. Security Council sanctions committee of its seizure of a North...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
UNITED NATIONS — The United Arab Emirates has seized a cargo ship bound for Iran with a cache of banned rocket-propelled grenades and other arms from North Korea, the first such seizure since sanctions against North Korea were ramped up, diplomats and officials told The Associated Press on Friday. The seizure earlier this month was carried out in accordance with tough new U.N. Security Council...
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