Topic: China

N. Korea's uranium for making bombs: South

North Korea's new uranium enrichment programme is designed to make nuclear weapons, South Korea's foreign minister has said, rebutting Pyongyang's claims that it is for peaceful use."I think it is part of an attempt to produce nuclear bombs on top of plutonium-based ...

EU to reject Iran offer on nuclear sites: Ashton

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The European Union will turn down an offer from Iran to tour its nuclear facilities, EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said on Friday."What I'll be saying is the role of the inspections of nuclear sites is for the ...
The US special envoy on North Korea on Wednesday met with a top South Korean official for talks on easing tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear programme and a deadly attack on a South Korean island.Stephen Bosworth called for "serious negotiations" as a central ...
AP Exclusive: Iran invites EU, other nations and groups to visit nuke siteIran has invited Russia, China, the European Union and its allies among the Arab and developing world to tour its nuclear sites, in an apparent move to gain support ahead ...
Communist allies North Korea and China proclaimed their unity Thursday as the North's leader Kim Jong-Il held his first meeting with a senior Chinese envoy since the region's worst crisis in years erupted.China's most senior foreign policymaker Dai Bingguo visited Pyongyang as ...

China says does not want to "replace" U.S. as world power

BEIJING (Reuters) - China does not want to "replace" the United States from its dominant role in the world, and the world should not fear China's rise, the country's top diplomat wrote in an essay.State Councilor Dai Bingguo said that China would ...
The largest ever US-Japan war games kicked off Friday in waters off the tense Korean peninsula as the UN's atomic watchdog voiced "great concern" about North Korea's nuclear ambitions.The manoeuvres in the East China Sea dwarf US-South Korean exercises this week in ...
Japan to send envoy to China for North Korea talks amid tensions over artillery attackJapan says it will send an envoy for North Korean nuclear talks to China amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula.The foreign ministry said Tuesday that Akitaka Saiki ...
A supercarrier sent jets into overcast skies Tuesday in U.S.-South Korean military drills that North Korea warned could spark war, but signs of diplomacy emerged alongside the tensions over last week's deadly North Korean attack.. Even as diplomats scrambled, leaked U.S. diplomatic ...
Jets roared off a supercarrier in U.S.-South Korean war games Tuesday, as the U.S. and two crucial Asian allies agreed to talk in Washington about North Korea's attack on a South Korean island and the North's nuclear weapons programs.. North Korea has ...