North Korea: We Have Nuclear Deterrent
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God knows if they&#39;re telling the truth, I wouldn&#39;t say their credibility is any too high. But I really don&#39;t think they&#39;d lie about this given the stakes: North Korea says it has turned the plutonium from
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The United States has assumed since  the mid-1990s that North Korea could make nuclear weapons,  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday, playing down  a dramatic announcement from Pyongyang.
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Reports out of Japan claim that there are activities in North Korea implying that the country may be preparing to launch one of its ballistic missiles.
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TOKYO -- A pledge by North Korea yesterday to conduct a nuclear test to bolster its defenses against the United States dramatically raised tensions in the region and marked the communist government's first unambiguous public threat to demonstrate itself as a nuclear power.
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Challenged by the UN nuclear chief to prove their atomic programs are peaceful, North Korea said it would scrap its ``nuclear deterrence&#39;&#39; if the United States ended its hostile policy and Iran said negotiations with three European
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North Korea has invited a delegation of the United Nations nuclear watchdog to visit the country in what could be a first step towards implementing an international agreement intended to curb its nuclear programme.
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North Korea has made significant progress in disabling its nuclear facility in Yongbyon but has hesitated at providing key details about the extent of its nuclear programs, including whether it has weaponized the plutonium harvested from the reactor, according to U.S. officials.
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North Korea has turned 8000 spent nuclear fuel rods into weapons to deter a possible US nuclear strike, a North Korean minister said.
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Pyongyang demanded the lifting of U.N. sanctions and threatened to increase its nuclear deterrent.
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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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TOKYO, Oct. 3 -- North Korea on Tuesday vowed to conduct a nuclear test to bolster its defenses against the United States, dramatically raising tensions in the region and marking the communist government's first ever unambiguous public threat to demonstrate itself as a nuclear power.
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The United States has assumed since  the mid-1990s that North Korean is able to make nuclear  weapons, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday,  playing down a dramatic announcement from Pyongyang.
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UNITED NATIONS - North Korea has turned the enriched uranium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into weapons to serve as a deterrent against a possible nuclear strike by the United States, a North Korean minister said on Monday.
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North Korea remains a nuclear proliferation risk and is probably still pursuing a uranium enrichment capacity, a US intelligence assessment concluded Tuesday.
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The United States and Japan have detected signs that North Korea is preparing to launch a ballistic missile capable of reaching almost anywhere in Japan, Japanese and US government sources said yesterday.
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Excerpts from an English-language statement released Thursday by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on its nuclear weapons program and relations with the United States. The North Korean government refers to the country as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or the DPRK.
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UNITED NATIONS - North Korea says it has turned the plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to prevent a nuclear war in northeast Asia...