IAEA wants to redeploy nuclear inspectors in North Korea: report

2011-12-20T01:00:08Z

TOKYO (Reuters) - The International Atomic Energy Agency must redeploy its inspectors in North Korea to help with the denuclearization of the Reuters) - The United States and North Korea have narrowed differences in a second set of talks since wider negotiations on nuclear disarmament collapsed in 2009, but issues remain, the top U.S. negotiator said on Monday.

Hiroshima bombing was dominated by national soul-searching on atomic power as Japan's prime minister pledged a nuclear-free future.

Marking the 66th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing at an annual event usually devoted to opposing nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Naoto Kan

Japan PM brings his nuclear-free vision to Hiroshima

2011-08-05T17:30:12Z

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Prime Minister Naoto Kan vowed on Saturday to challenge the "myth of safety" of nuclear power while marking the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a city that has now started questioning its long em...

Japan warns of China's growing naval muscle

2011-08-02T06:30:17Z

Japan voiced concern Tuesday over China's growing assertiveness and widening naval reach in nearby waters and the Pacific and over what it called the "opaqueness" of Beijing's military budget.

In its annual defence report, Tokyo also pointed to threats from United States said Saturday it was "encouraged" by surprise talks between North and South Korea over Pyongyang's nuclear programme, but remained cool on resuming disarmament talks.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told regional foreign mini...

UN atomic watchdog experts set off for Japan

2011-05-22T13:30:58Z

A team of experts from the UN atomic watchdog flew out to Tokyo from Vienna on Sunday to team up with other international experts investigating Japan's nuclear crisis.

Six experts from the China's Premier Wen Jiabao confirmed on Sunday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is visiting China to study its dramatic economic development, South Korean officials said.

Wen expressed hope that Kim would use the knowledge to revive his own country's faltering economy, they said.

He made the comments to the South's Presi...

Tokyo, Seoul urge actions not words from N. Korea

2011-01-15T14:30:14Z

Japan and South Korea said Saturday that Pyongyang should take concrete steps to show its commitment to scrapping its nuclear arsenal before six-party disarmament talks can resume.

At a meeting in Seoul, 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 ones," Kim Sung-Hwan said in an interview with ...

Biggest US-Japan naval drill starts amid N.Korea crisis

2010-12-03T12:04:47Z

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 Japan to send envoy to China for North Korea talks amid tensions over artillery attack

Japan 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

Signs of diplomacy in NKorea crisis

2010-11-30T12:38:44Z

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Signs of diplomacy in North Korea crisis

2010-11-30T12:38:42Z

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N.Korea accused of breaking nuclear pledges

2010-11-22T19:31:07Z

North Korea Monday stood accused of breaking international pledges as its partners in six-party nuclear talks reacted angrily to claims that Pyongyang has built a working uranium enrichment plant.

Japan said such a programme "should never be tolerated", while South Korea...

Travel destinations: Hiroshima, Japan

2010-11-29T15:57:37Z

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Were the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki unavoidable tragedies?

2010-11-29T15:59:43Z

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India, Japan PMs confirm trade pact, discuss nuclear deal

2010-10-25T11:30:52Z

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his counterpart Naoto Kan also stressed the warm ties linking two of Asia's biggest democracies, at a time of high diplomatic tensions between Japan and communist-ruled

India, Japan PMs to confirm trade pact

2010-10-24T22:30:31Z

Manmohan Singh, who arrived on Sunday, and his counterpart Naoto Kan were also expected to stress the warm ties between Asia's biggest democracies at a time of high diplomatic tensions between Japan and communist-ruled

Lighting The Path

2010-11-02T22:31:32Z

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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials

2010-09-29T12:46:43Z

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials in Newspapers in the US and Abroad

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

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The Dallas Morning News on replacing the director of the Japan imposed new sanctions Friday against Iran, including an assets freeze on people and entities linked to its contentious nuclear programme and tighter restrictions on financial transactions.

Japan also said it would suspend any new oil and gas investments in Iran, but there are no plans to restrict imports of crude oil from the Islamic republic, the fourth-biggest oil supplier to reso...

Japan OKs new financial sanctions against Iran

2010-09-02T21:20:39Z

Japan's cabinet Friday approved new sanctions against Iran, including an assets freeze on figures linked to its nuclear programme and tighter restrictions on financial transactions, media reported.

The step comes a month after Tokyo approved punitive measures in line with a June Japan's foreign minister warned India on Saturday against conducting any new nuclear tests, saying such a move would force a halt to any civilian nuclear cooperation between the two countries.

The warning came a day after India's cabinet approved a long-delayed draft law that will clear the way for foreign nuclear groups to build reactors in the 150-billion-dollar Indian atomic energy market.

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Scholars said the United States and Japan to resolve the Korean nuclear issue threatened to take China

2010-09-08T16:14:28Z

8 6, Japan mark 64 anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima was the anti-nuclear, anti-war, anti-American demonstrators hold onto the city parade in Hiroshima, Japan

HC Network Security Recently, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich in a speech in Washington, said that China needs in the near future, the denuclearization of the Korean and Japanese nuclear weapons, select one.

The United States as Japan's allies, after the request has to be in Japan,...

Japan's A-bombed Madonna becomes symbol of peace

2010-08-08T00:15:25Z

When the atom bomb "Fat Boy" devastated Nagasaki 65 years ago on Monday, one of the buildings reduced to rubble was the city's Urakami cathedral -- then among the largest churches in Asia.

The blinding nuclear flash that would claim more than 70,000 lives in the city also, in an instant, blew out the stained glass windows of the church, toppled its walls, burnt its altar and melted its iron bell...

U.S. attends Hiroshima bombing ceremony for first time

2010-08-05T18:30:12Z

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Japan marked the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima Friday with the United States represented at the ceremony for the first time.

The peace bell tolled at 8:15 a.m., the time the bomb was dropped by the HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - The Japanese city of Hiroshima, reduced to ashes by a U.S. nuclear bomb in 1945, holds its annual commemoration of that attack on Friday, but this will be the first year that a U.S. representative will take part.

U.S. officials announced that Ambassador...

US decision to attend Hiroshima memorial hailed

2010-08-05T04:15:34Z

US decision to attend Hiroshima event seen as a breakthrough, but still sensitive

The site of the world's first atomic attack swarmed with tens of thousands of people Thursday as Hiroshima prepared for a memorial that will for the first time have representatives from the United States and other major nuclear powers.

Washington's decision to attend the ...

U.S. urges Japan follow EU with more Iran sanctions

2010-10-22T13:07:28Z

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. officials urged on Wednesday Japan to follow the European Union in adopting additional strong sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, saying such measures should not harm Japan's oil imports from Iran.

Ja...

US urges Japan to get tough on Iran

2010-08-04T07:15:14Z

Senior US officials on Wednesday urged Japan to follow Europe's example and take "strong measures" to punish Iran over its contentious nuclear programme.

Japan imposed sanctions against Iran on Tuesday in line with a UN resolution and said it...

US to send first delegation to Hiroshima memorial

2010-08-04T03:00:06Z

Atomic Apology? US to send first delegation to Hiroshima A-Bomb memorial

Survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are welcoming a decision by the United States to send its first ever delegation to a ceremony marking the anniversary of the attacks, but are asking for something they aren't likel...

US to attend Hiroshima memorial for first time

2010-08-02T23:15:27Z

Sixty-five years after a mushroom cloud rose over Hiroshima, the United States will for the first time send an envoy this Friday to commemorate the bombing that rang in the nuclear age.

Its World War II allies Britain and France, both declared nuclear powers, will also send...

THE PSI stemming the nuclear danger

2010-11-02T15:15:25Z

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Japan urges Iran to halt uranium enrichment

2010-05-31T12:16:11Z

Japan urged Iran Monday to halt its controversial uranium enrichment programme, hinting Tokyo might support additional international sanctions against the country, officials said.

The move came as Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada met his Iranian counterpart North Korea visited South Korea this week for talks, a foreign ministry official said Friday.

The official said Daniel Glaser, deputy assistant secretary of the treasury for terrorist financing and financial crimes, arrived Wednesday for a visit ending Friday alo...

US sees 'critical role' for Japan on Iran

2010-03-04T23:16:10Z

A top US official said Friday Japan has "a very critical role" to play in international efforts to limit Iran's nuclear ambitions as the West pitches new sanctions against Tehran.

Japan -- which relies heavily on Middle Eastern oil and, unlike its chief ally the United States, maintains relatively cor...

Iran says UN nuclear watchdog bends to political influence

2010-02-26T10:17:34Z

Iran's parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani on Friday accused the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), of bending to pressure from the world powers.

"One of the defects in the IAEA is that it changes p...

Iran wants to discuss Japan offer to enrich uranium: report

2010-04-16T06:57:51Z

Iran will study a Japanese offer to enrich uranium for Tehran to allow it access to nuclear power for peaceful purposes, an Iranian politician was quoted as saying in Tokyo Thursday.

"It has the substance to be worth discussing. We want to deepen the discussion on it," visiting parliamentary speaker Ali Lar...

Japan's Hatoyama pressures Iran on nuclear plans

2010-04-16T06:58:14Z

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama urged Iran Wednesday to prove to the world that its nuclear projects are for peaceful purposes and not weapons programmes.

Iran should allay international fears that it may be seeking an atomic weapon by complying with UN Security Council resolutions an...

Japan offers to enrich uranium for Iran: report

2010-04-16T06:58:14Z

Japan has offered to enrich uranium for Iran to allow the Islamic republic access to nuclear power while allaying international fears it might be seeking an atomic weapon, according to a report Wednesday.

Tehran has not yet given a concrete response to the US-backed proposal, which was made when Iran's top nuclear negotiator Japanese man who survived atomic bombings in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki dies

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person officially recognized as a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings at the end of World War II, has died at age 93.

Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip for ...

Australia, Japan want huge cuts in nuclear arsenals

2010-04-16T08:23:27Z

The centre-left prime ministers of Japan and Australia on Tuesday voiced support for a report calling for a cut of more than 90 percent in the world's nuclear arsenals.

The two leaders issued their appeal after the International...

Text of Obama's news conference with Hatoyama

2010-06-25T19:48:31Z

Text of President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's news conference

Text of President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's remarks at a news conference on Friday in Tokyo, as transcribed by the White House

Obama says willing to visit Hiroshima while in office

2010-06-25T19:52:13Z

US President Barack Obama is willing to visit the nuclear-bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki while in office but won't go there during a Japan trip this week, he said in an NHK TV interview Tuesday.<...

Obama says willing to visit Hiroshima

2010-06-16T11:29:26Z

Obama says he wants to visit Hiroshima in future

2010-06-25T19:52:54Z

Obama says he wants to visit A-bomb cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during his presidency

President Barack Obama says he wants to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki sometime during his presidency but won't have time during this week's trip to Japan to go to the cities devastat...

Gates says North Korea's military "more lethal"

2010-06-25T16:21:02Z

SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday North Korea had become a more deadly threat to the region and Washington would never tolerate a nuclear-armed Atomic bomb cities Hiroshima, Nagasaki in joint bid for 2020 Summer Olympics

Hiroshima and Nagasaki — site of atomic bombings in World War II — are teaming up to make a bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics that will emphasize world peace.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki said Sunday they were considering bidding for the 2020 Summer Olympics in tandem with a campaign to promote a nuclear-free world.

The two cities, which were rebuilt from the devastation of US atomic bombings in t...

China urges neighbors, U.S. to talk to North Korea

2010-06-25T16:23:08Z

BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea wants to ease a standoff with the United States, Japan and South Korea, Chinese Premier Wen ...

Hiroshima, Nagasaki hail call for nuke-free world

2010-04-16T10:08:43Z

The mayors of Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world's only cities to have been hit with atom bombs, on Friday hailed a UN resolution vowing to rid the planet of all nuclear weapons.

"This is what we have consistently demanded," said Nagasaki mayor Tomihisa Taue. "I am grateful to s...

Japan joins call to end 'cruelty' of nuclear arms

2010-04-16T10:09:30Z

Japan, the only country ever to be ravaged by atomic bombs, on Thursday hailed moves to rid the world of the "cruelty" of nuclear weapons as it warned they still posed a threat.

New Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said he had been "choked with emotion" when he visited Nagasaki and Hiroshima<...

US, SKorea in top-level talks on NKorean nuclear programme

2010-06-25T16:29:11Z

The United States and South Korea on Saturday held high-level talks on ways to press North Korea to return to disarmament talks, a day after the communist state's renewed nuclear sabre-rattling.

Stephen Bosworth, US special representative on North Korea, m...

US, SKorea in top-level talks on NKorea

2010-04-16T10:29:14Z

The United States and South Korea on Saturday held top-level talks to discuss ways to press North Korea to return to disarmament talks, a day after the communist state's renewed nuclear sabre-rattling.

Stephen Bosworth, the

Analysis: NKorea's talk offer is dilemma for Obama

2010-06-25T16:30:47Z

Analysis: Obama stuck between refusing talks with North Korea and a rise in nuclear tensions

After being portrayed for years as a reclusive villain with nuclear ambitions, it's North Korea that wants to talk. And it's the Obama administration — champion of engaging adversaries — that does not.

By insisting that it will not deal on...

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima

2010-10-14T12:56:19Z

In the morning of August 6, 1945, the heart city of Japan, Hiroshima was engaged in usual early morning activities. The land of rising sun was not aware that it?s going to be the world?s biggest disaster. The B-29 bomber named ?Enola Gay? piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets took off from the island of Japan Tinian. Colonel Paul Tibbets was the general of the 509th composite Group and he named the B-29 bomber after his mothers name Enola Gay. He dropped the ?Little Boy?, the 9,700 Pound Uranium Bo...

Korea: A House Divided

2010-10-26T21:33:16Z

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Piano that survived atomic bomb plays on for peace

2010-04-16T10:52:39Z

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - A 77-year-old piano that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and has become a symbol for peace is heading to New York next year as the city marks the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

When the Hiroshima mayor echoes Obama's call to abolish nuclear arms on anniversary of atomic attack

Hiroshima's mayor urged global leaders on Thursday to back President Barack Obama's call to abolish nuclear weapons as Japan marked the 64th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack.

In April, Obama said that th...

Nuke-free world urged on Hiroshima bomb anniversary

2010-04-16T10:57:58Z

Japan marked 64 years Thursday since Hiroshima was hit in the world's first atomic bomb attack with a call for a nuclear-weapons-free world, a goal backed by US President Barack Obama.

The mayor of Hiroshima, the city where 140,000 people died from the blast, renewed his call for the abolition of what he said are 24,000 remaining nuclea...

Japan opposition backs Obama's nuclear-free plan

2010-06-25T21:10:37Z

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Japan's main opposition Democratic Party, which has a good shot at winning power in a general election this month, said on Thursday it backed U.S. President Barack Obama's cal...

'Not too late' for NKorea to return to talks: US envoy

2010-06-12T09:20:00Z

A US envoy on Friday called on North Korea to return to the six-nation talks on nuclear disarmament, saying it was "not too late" for the stalled negotiations to resume, according to a news report.

"We think it's important to send a collective message to North Korea that it's not too late and that we still wish them to return to the six-party talks and to responsible negotiations," US North Korea has spent an estimated 700 million dollars this year on nuclear and missile tests, enough to solve its food shortage for at least two years, according to South Korean news reports.

The figure includes the estimated 43 million dollar cost of test-firing five Scud and two Rodong missiles Saturday, according to unidentified government officials quoted by UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that he was determined to achieve a nuclear-free North Korea amid tension over new UN sanctions on the isolated communist regime.

"I spare no effort in facilitating the achievement of verifiable denuclearisation of the Kor...

Japan, S.Korea in united stance against N.Korea

2010-06-25T16:46:46Z

South Korea and Japan "will never tolerate" a nuclear-armed North Korea, South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said on Sunday after talks with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso.

Lee and Aso agreed to press North Korea to abandon its...

Japan, SKorea summit to focus on NKorea

2010-06-25T16:46:53Z

South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso have held talks in Tokyo, with simmering tensions over North Korea's nuclear programmes topping the agenda.

The summit comes as Pyongyang steps up its confronta...

US ready for possible NKorean missile launch to Hawaii: Gates

2010-04-16T11:44:27Z

The United States has concerns about a possible North Korean missile launch towards Hawaii and has taken steps to ensure the protection of US territory, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday.

"We do have some concerns if they were to launch a missile ... in the direction of Hawaii," Gates told a news conference.

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Correction: Albury obituary

2010-10-27T14:23:13Z

Correction: Albury obituary

In a June 4 obituary about Charles Donald Albury, the co-pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, The Associated Press erroneously reported the training location for the 509th Composite Group. It was Wendover Air Field in Charles Albury, co-pilot of plane that dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki, dies at age 88 in Fla.

Charles Donald Albury, co-pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, has died after years of congestive heart failure. He was 88.

Albury died May 23 at a hospital, Family Funeral Care in

SKorea beefs up maritime defences against North

2010-06-25T16:57:38Z

South Korea's navy bolstered its defences near the tense sea border with North Korea, sending in a high-speed patrol boat armed with guided missiles and vowing to "punish" any attacking forces.

Compared with North Korean vessels, the South Korean ship "is armed with overwhelming fire power," a naval spokesman told reporters.

The South Korean navy will "punish immediatel...

A Nuclear Asia From End To End

2010-10-21T10:00:13Z

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SKorea, US troops raise alert after NKorean threat

2010-04-16T12:04:30Z

South Korean and US troops went on higher alert after North Korea threatened an attack on the South and Washington stressed its determination to defend its ally.

Seoul's defence ministry said air and ground forces were keeping a closer watch on the tense land and sea border after the communist North announced it was abandoning...

Japan New Year

2010-12-31T05:01:02Z

Women chat as they offer this year's last prayers at a temple in China town in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)

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Japan World Markets

2010-12-30T01:01:25Z

Traders on the Tokyo Stock Exchange react during the afternoon trading in Tokyo at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Most Asian stock markets traded in narrow ranges Thursday as fewer investors participated in the market ahead of the New Year holiday while Japan's Japan joining a United States-backed trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, free trade agreement in Yokohama near Tokyo as the Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average climbed 1.5 percent to 10,370.53 after the Bank of Japan kept monetary policy unchanged at the current super loose set...

Japan Stabbings

2010-12-17T03:01:23Z

A teacher of Edogawagakuen Toride High school, left, escort for their students to a station in Toride, Ibaraki prefecture, north of Tokyo, after their classes were canceled following a knife attack at the station Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. An unemployed Japanese man with a knife attacked students and other passengers waiting on two public buses outside the station Friday in a rampage that...

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IAEA wants to redeploy nuclear inspectors in North Korea: report

Japan PM brings his nuclear-free vision to Hiroshima

Japan warns of China's growing naval muscle

UN atomic watchdog experts set off for Japan

Tokyo, Seoul urge actions not words from N. Korea

Biggest US-Japan naval drill starts amid N.Korea crisis

Signs of diplomacy in NKorea crisis

Signs of diplomacy in North Korea crisis

N.Korea accused of breaking nuclear pledges

Travel destinations: Hiroshima, Japan

Were the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki unavoidable tragedies?

India, Japan PMs confirm trade pact, discuss nuclear deal

India, Japan PMs to confirm trade pact

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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials

Japan OKs new financial sanctions against Iran

Scholars said the United States and Japan to resolve the Korean nuclear issue threatened to take China

Japan's A-bombed Madonna becomes symbol of peace

U.S. attends Hiroshima bombing ceremony for first time

US decision to attend Hiroshima memorial hailed

U.S. urges Japan follow EU with more Iran sanctions

US urges Japan to get tough on Iran

US to send first delegation to Hiroshima memorial

US to attend Hiroshima memorial for first time

THE PSI stemming the nuclear danger

Japan urges Iran to halt uranium enrichment

US sees 'critical role' for Japan on Iran

Iran says UN nuclear watchdog bends to political influence

Iran wants to discuss Japan offer to enrich uranium: report

Japan's Hatoyama pressures Iran on nuclear plans

Japan offers to enrich uranium for Iran: report

Australia, Japan want huge cuts in nuclear arsenals

Text of Obama's news conference with Hatoyama

Obama says willing to visit Hiroshima while in office

Obama says willing to visit Hiroshima

Obama says he wants to visit Hiroshima in future

Gates says North Korea's military "more lethal"

China urges neighbors, U.S. to talk to North Korea

Hiroshima, Nagasaki hail call for nuke-free world

Japan joins call to end 'cruelty' of nuclear arms

US, SKorea in top-level talks on NKorean nuclear programme

US, SKorea in top-level talks on NKorea

Analysis: NKorea's talk offer is dilemma for Obama

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima

Korea: A House Divided

Piano that survived atomic bomb plays on for peace

Nuke-free world urged on Hiroshima bomb anniversary

Japan opposition backs Obama's nuclear-free plan

'Not too late' for NKorea to return to talks: US envoy

Japan, S.Korea in united stance against N.Korea

Japan, SKorea summit to focus on NKorea

US ready for possible NKorean missile launch to Hawaii: Gates

Correction: Albury obituary

SKorea beefs up maritime defences against North

A Nuclear Asia From End To End

SKorea, US troops raise alert after NKorean threat

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