China, N Korea hold key talks

Moscow: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday said he was concerned over North Korea's latest short-range missile launches and called on Pyongyang to return to the six-party talks on its controversial nuclear programme. The communist regime broke off ...

South Korea has idled two nuclear power plants after finding that test results for crucial control cables were falsified in a new blow to an industry mired in a graft scandal and safety lapses. South Korea's trade and energy ministry said on Tuesday a company ...

Possible radioactive traces from a North Korean nuclear test in February have been detected for the first time in Japan, a monitoring organization has said.

North Korea took unusual steps to conceal details about its latest nuclear weapon test, fuelling suspicions that it has achieved a bomb design that uses highly enriched uranium as the core, according to a media report.

South Korea's point man on North Korea said Monday there is an "indication" that Pyongyang is preparing for a fourth nuclear test, a day after another Seoul official said a Pyongyang missile test

Tokyo, Apr 9 : - Amid reports North Korea is preparing a missile launch or another nuclear test, Japan on Tuesday deployed PAC-3 missile interceptors in key locations around Tokyo. Japan has taken similar measures before, but has never actually tried to shoot ...

North Korea would need to carry out at least one more atomic test in order to develop a nuclear missile, a prominent US scientist said.

External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said North Korea should follow the rules of Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) by not testing missile or make permanent nuclear facilities.

On the brink of an expected North Korean missile test, US officials focused on the limits of Pyongyang's nuclear firepower on Friday, trying to shift attention from the disclosure that the Koreans might be able to launch a nuclear strike.