# nuclear-weapons - Sunday 4 November, 2018
It said the policy could return if the US doesn’t end tough economic sanctions against the impoverished regime.
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# nuclear-weapons - Monday 22 October, 2018
Over the weekend, Trump announced a withdrawal from a Cold War-era nuclear weapons treaty.
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# nuclear-weapons - Wednesday 5 September, 2018
Washington has sought to build up international pressure on Iran after reimposing tough sanctions in August.
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# nuclear-weapons - Tuesday 28 August, 2018
The country also takes aim at China’s rise as a military power.
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# nuclear-weapons - Saturday 4 August, 2018
A UN report has said that North Korea has resorted to a “massive increase” of illegal ship-to-ship transfers of oil products at sea to evade sanctions.
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# nuclear-weapons - Tuesday 24 July, 2018
Analysts have said that it is an “important first step” towards fulfilling commitments made to US President Donald Trump.
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# nuclear-weapons - Saturday 16 June, 2018
Experts have looked into the impact using such weapons would have on a nation’s population and resources.
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# nuclear-weapons - Friday 1 June, 2018
The announcement came after unprecedented Oval Office talks with a top envoy from Pyongyang.
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# nuclear-weapons - Sunday 20 May, 2018
North Korea’s sudden shift in attitude followed a weeks-long charm offensive.
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# nuclear-weapons - Sunday 29 April, 2018
Kim Jong Un said he “would soon invite experts of South Korea and the US as well as journalists”.
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# nuclear-weapons - Thursday 26 April, 2018
Researchers have said the site is now unusable.
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# nuclear-weapons - Saturday 10 March, 2018
The White House has swatted away criticisms of the meeting.
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# nuclear-weapons - Saturday 13 January, 2018
The US President has vowed to pull out of the accord if European allies don’t fix its “terrible flaws”.
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# nuclear-weapons - Tuesday 2 January, 2018
The offer comes after Kim Jong-Un said he has a nuclear button on his desk and his country might attend the Winter Olympics in the South.
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# nuclear-weapons - Monday 1 January, 2018
The North Korean leader vowed the country would mass-produce nuclear warheads and missiles in a defiant New Year message.
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# nuclear-weapons - Saturday 23 December, 2017
The sanctions will restrict oil supplies vital for Pyongyang’s missile and nuclear programmes.
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# nuclear-weapons - Wednesday 13 December, 2017
Tillerson, however, remains determined to force it to abandon its nuclear arsenal.
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# nuclear-weapons - Monday 4 December, 2017
The airline’s general manager said crew described seeing the missile “blow up and fall apart”.
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# nuclear-weapons - Saturday 28 October, 2017
Pyongyang in recent months has sparked global alarm by conducting a sixth nuclear test and test-launching missiles capable of reaching the US mainland.
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# nuclear-weapons - Wednesday 11 October, 2017
NBC reported that Trump wants a tenfold increase to US nuclear weapons.
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# nuclear-weapons - Sunday 8 October, 2017
The US President has been trading insults with Kim Jong-un amid rising tensions.
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# nuclear-weapons - Friday 6 October, 2017
You can’t nominate yourself, in case you were wondering.
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There were 318 candidates for this year’s prize.
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# nuclear-weapons - Wednesday 20 September, 2017
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons today.
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# nuclear-weapons - Tuesday 5 September, 2017
A new agreement between Washington and Seoul will allow the South to develop more powerful weapons.
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# nuclear-weapons - Wednesday 30 August, 2017
His comments are at odds with remarks made by US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.
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# nuclear-weapons - Wednesday 9 August, 2017
Minister Charlie Flanagan says Ireland must however remain vigilant.
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# nuclear-weapons - Sunday 6 August, 2017
A ban on exports aims to deprive Pyongyang of about €850 million in annual revenue.
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An event to remember the victims will take place in Dublin today.
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# nuclear-weapons - Saturday 5 August, 2017
The move could cost Pyongyang about €850 million in annual revenue.
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# nuclear-weapons - Saturday 15 July, 2017
Like father, not necessarily like son.
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# nuclear-weapons - Saturday 3 June, 2017
Trump’s team wants to get China, Pyongyang’s ally, on side.
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# nuclear-weapons - Saturday 29 April, 2017
The US President said the move “disrespected the wishes of China”.
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# nuclear-weapons - Wednesday 26 April, 2017
Officials said they want to bring North Korea back to the “path of dialogue”.
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# nuclear-weapons - Monday 17 April, 2017
When US President Donald Trump was asked for his thoughts on North Korea, he reportedly replied “Gotta behave”.
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# nuclear-weapons - Saturday 15 April, 2017
Donald Trump has dispatched an aircraft carrier group to the Korean peninsula.
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# nuclear-weapons - Monday 26 December, 2016
Khawaja Asif was widely mocked for his blunder.
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# nuclear-weapons - Friday 23 December, 2016
The US President-elect had said the US needs to expand its nuclear capabilities until “the world comes to its senses regarding nukes”.
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# nuclear-weapons - Thursday 22 December, 2016
The US President-elect made the comment a few hours after Vladimir Putin said something similar about Russia.
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# nuclear-weapons - Saturday 10 September, 2016
The country has sought to justify its weapons programme as a defence against US nuclear “blackmail”.
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