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Xi’s Pyongyang visit tests denuclearization hopes (KOR)

As Xi Jinping visits North Korea, Pyongyang’s harder nuclear stance and deeper China-Russia ties raise fears denuclearization could give way to tacit acceptance.

2026.6.8

Xi’s Pyongyang visit tests denuclearization hopes

As Xi Jinping visits North Korea, Pyongyang’s harder nuclear stance and deeper China-Russia ties raise fears denuclearization could give way to tacit acceptance.

2026.6.7

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Sister of North Korean leader rejects assertions of U.S-China pursuit of denuclearization

Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, said the country would never give up its status as a nuclear weapons state and rejected a U.S. assertion that Washington and Beijing had agreed to pursue its denuclearization.

2026.6.7

Israeli Ambassador to South Korea Rafael Harpaz speaks during a press conference on Israel’s ongoing military operation against Iran in Jongno District, central Seoul, on March 5. [YONHAP]

Israeli envoy says Iran strikes meant to halt North Korea-style nuclear breakout

Israeli Ambassador to South Korea Rafael Harpaz said Thursday that Israel's airstrikes on Iran was driven in part by “lessons” drawn from the failure of the United States and South Korea to stop North Korea's nuclear program in the 1990s.

2026.3.5

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 17. [AP/YONHAP]

North Korea bristles at Japan's reported review of 3 non-nuclear principles

North Korea's state media on Thursday denounced Japan's reported review of its decades-long three non-nuclear principles. The Rodong Sinmun newspaper issued the criticism as Japanese prime minister has reportedly sought to shift the principles.

2025.12.18

Kim Chul-soo, an 87-year-old Korean survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, looks through his family records during an interview with the Korea JoongAng Daily in Hapcheon, South Gyeongsang, on Aug. 12. [MICHAEL LEE]

'No one wants to take responsibility': 80 years on, Korean atomic bomb survivors call for apology, redress

Eighty years after the Hiroshima bombing, Korean survivors remain largely unacknowledged, suffering from discrimination and health issues. Recent government pledges offer little support, while their fight against nuclear weapons continues.

2025.8.15

A North Korean Hwasong-18 solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile is seen taking off in this photo taken by the state-controlled Korean Central News Agency on July 12, 2023. [YONHAP]

North Korea denounces U.S. missile defense drills in Alaska

North Korea on Saturday denounced a recent U.S. missile defense exercise in Alaska, characterizing the drill as a provocative move that reflects Washington's growing readiness for nuclear conflict with Pyongyang.

2025.5.3

Rows of mock 30mm shells are seen at Hanwha Aerospace factory in Changwon on November 21, 2024. Longstanding domestic policy bars Seoul from providing weapons into active conflict zones, but ever since its spy agency accused the nuclear-armed North last month of sending thousands of soldiers to help Moscow fight Kyiv, South Korea has warned it might change course. [AFP/YONHAP]

More than 40 percent of experts predict South Korea will go nuclear within a decade, survey finds

More than 40 percent of strategists and foresight practitioners predicted that South Korea will have nuclear weapons within the next decade, a think tank survey says, while a quarter of them expected North Korea to use nuclear arms within 10 years.

2025.2.13

Bracing for the North’s ‘gray zone’ tactics

South Korea faces the dilemma of how to counter nuclear weapons without having them.

2024.9.25

The USS Kentucky, a U.S. nuclear-armed submarine, is anchored at the Busan Naval Base in Busan on July 19, 2023. [AP/YONHAP]

South Koreans prefer own nuclear deterrent over U.S. troops: Survey

The survey, conducted by the Korea Institute of National Unification, found that 44.6 percent of respondents said they would choose development and possession of an independent nuclear arsenal over keeping the U.S. military presence in South Korea.

2024.6.27