A look at North Korea's nuclear program: REACTORS: 5-megawatt facility in Yongbyon capable of producing plutonium, which can be weaponized to make nuclear bombs, was shut down in July 2007 as part of a disarmament-for-aid deal. In April, North Korea
SEOUL, Dec 8 – US President Barack Obama’s first envoy to North Korea flies to Pyongyang on Tuesday to try to coax the prickly state back to the nuclear talks it quit a year ago, but without offering it any new incentives. A senior US official said
SEOUL - President Barack Obama's first envoy to North Korea flies to Pyongyang Tuesday to try to coax the prickly state back to the nuclear talks it quit a year ago, but without offering it any new incentives. A senior U.S. official said Stephen Bo
CAIRO - The former chief of the U.N.'s nuclear agency critiqued Egypt's lack of democracy after reform-minded Egyptian youths urged him to come home and run for president. In an open letter published in newspapers over the weekend, Mohamed ElBaradei
MOSCOW - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Moscow on Sunday to ink billions of dollars of weapons deals and for talks on a landmark nuclear deal that could significantly widen atomic fuel imports from Russia. India, along with China,
INCHEON, South Korea - The U.S. envoy for North Korea arrived in the South on Sunday ahead of a visit to Pyongyang aimed at convincing the communist state to end its boycott of wider nuclear disarmament talks. Stephen Bosworth, the first envoy sent
Is Italy capable of delivering a thermonuclear strike? Could the Belgians and the Dutch drop hydrogen bombs on enemy targets? And what about Germany - a country where fear of atomkraft is so great that the last government opposed all civilian nuclea
PORT GIBSON, Miss. - State utility regulators have approved a plan by Entergy Mississippi to increase the output from its Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Plant in Port Gibson. Approval by the Mississippi Public Service Commission came Monday. Federal regul
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