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BEIJING, Jan 4 — China today said it will continue to “modernise” its nuclear arsenal and called on the United States and Russia to reduce their stockpiles a day after global powers pledged to prevent such weapons spreading. In a rare joint statement setting aside rising West-East tensions,...

This interview shows also the kind of activity the regime is willing to go to to survive, whether it comes to selling weapons, whether it comes to perhaps producing counterfeit money, as he also alleges, when it comes to making drugs, as they have been in the past, these are allegations that have come from notjust these are allegations that have come from not just this current defector but other north korea defectors in the past. it is an open secret within the north korea watching community. bu...

Clearly is china pushing back. you know, it shows just how far we have come, i think, from the era, just a decade or so ago, when the two sides look to, at least potentially, able to find a compromise, ring aside their differences, essentially kicking the vexed question of exactly what taiwan was down the line unjust strengthening business ties. the president today was making it very clear that that area is over because of the direction china is taking, it is growing increasingly authoritarian, ...

Providing you have had the jab. and new research warns that the loss of biodiversity risks tipping the world into ecological meltdown. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news, its newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. kimjong—un hello and welcome to the programme. kim jong—un will never give up his nuclear weapons, according to a former senior officer in north koreas spy senior officer in north koreas spy agencies. the colonel, who defected from north korea in 2014, says h...

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Deterrent is tied to kim jong—un�*s survival. as the young dictator executed many of his political rivals, the colonel realised he too was at risk. translation: i was the reddest of the red and to abandon my - country and to escape to south korea was the worst grief stricken decision, made in utter distressed. while the colonel�*s account is impossible to verify, it serves as a timely reminder that the young leader has proved to be an attempt dictator, with only one goal in mind. the survi...

More, no less. we have a vision, we have inspections to carry out, and these inspections have to do with the entire nuclear programme of the islamic republic of iran and as you are saying, this is in connection, deeply interconnected with the possibility or not to return to the famous gc poa, signed in 2015 which the united states withdrew from in 2018, and since the beginning of this year, there has been a diplomatic effort here in vienna to try to return to it. so there are many aspects, and w...

For civilian purposes, your agencys a huge advocate of nuclear energy as a source of power in the world. yes. so why do you think youre right and your critics — who dont like nuclear power — are wrong? well, nuclear energy has been traditionally, as you know, one of those things that elicits emotions. there are historical reasons, sociological reasons — whatever. the reality is that, at the moment, with red alert for humanity as the last report of the experts on climate change have said, f...

Without having any material effect to the environment. other disadvantages — very expensive to build, and also they take a long time to build properly, and you need highly efficient technically trained staff to manage them, otherwise you get leaks like the one we saw in fukushima and so on. so youve got a huge pr problem, havent you, with nuclear? i would agree with the last part of what you said. there is a pr problem for nuclear energy. i would not agree with what you said before. the issue ...