U.S. pushes non-proliferation, N.Korea defends nukes
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Washington has urged Asian countries to call for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula while North Korean officials defended Pyongyang's development of nuclear weapons, at meetings this week in Manila.
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North Korea threatened on Saturday to double the size of its nuclear deterrent and the United States rejected its conditions for a resumption of talks, leaving the two nations in a dangerous stalemate.
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North Korea on Sunday stepped up anti-US propaganda with a six-nation nuclear disarmament process bogged down and Pyongyang and Washington in dispute over the delay.
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North Korea believes Washington has atomic weapons deployed in South Korea and it will not halt its nuclear program as long as this threat persists, Itar-Tass news agency quoted a North Korean source as saying on Thursday.
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North Korea threatened on Saturday to  double the size of its nuclear deterrent if the United States  did not drop what Pyongyang sees as a confrontational policy  aimed at unseating the communist leadership.
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SEOUL -- Denying it has any nuclear weapons ambitions, South Korea insisted yesterday that a one-time uranium enrichment test by its scientists will not derail US-led efforts to dismantle rival North Korea's nuclear programs.
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President Bush&#39;s concentration on North Korea&#39;s nuclear programme at the meeting of Asian and Pacific countries in Chile shows that stopping the spread of nuclear weapons will continue to
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WASHINGTON â North Korea, in its first reaction to evidence South Korean scientists conducted tests to enrich uranium, has accused Seoul of &quot;accelerating a nuclear-arms race&quot; in Northeast Asia.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 21 -- With North Korea refusing to return to the six-nation disarmament talks, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday convened a meeting of a new group of nations that will focus on Northeast Asian security concerns. Diplomats have dubbed the group "Five Plus Five" to...
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SEOUL, South Korea - Denying it has any nuclear weapons ambitions, South Korea insisted yesterday that a one-time uranium enrichment test by its scientists will not derail US-led efforts to dismantle rival North Korea&#39;s nuclear programs.
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SEOUL, OCTOBER 26: US secretary of State Colin Powell on Tuesday sought to fend off complaints from key partners in the effort to end North Koreaâs nuclear programs that the Bush administration has not been sufficiently creative or willing to compromise
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(CBS/AP) President Bush is insisting Iran will not develop a nuclear weapon on his watch. North Korea is insisting it is well on its way to doing so.
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explosion in North Korea wasn&#39;ta nuclear bomb doesn&#39;t mean the world community should ignore it. Secretary of State Colin Powell said evidence supports North Korea&#39;s statement that the blast was to remove part of a mountain for a hydroelectric.
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As North Korea, South Korea, and Iran raise risks of an arms race, the global challenge to nonproliferation grows.
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Does access to fuel ease nations toward nuclear weapons? Rising demand has nonproliferation experts unsettled.
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North Korea said on Tuesday it would conduct a nuclear test in the future but would never use atomic weapons first and remained committed to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, Pyongyang's KCNA news agency reported.
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North Korea has not met its  commitment to fully account for its nuclear activities by the  end of 2007 under a disarmament agreement, the United States  said on Sunday, urging Pyongyang to comply with its  obligations.