Topic: Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - The International Atomic Energy Agency must redeploy its inspectors in North Korea to help with the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Yukiya Amano, director general of the U.N. nuclear agency was quoted as saying by Kyodo news agency.The death ...
GENEVA (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.Ambassador Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special representative ...
A ceremony on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the 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 ...
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 embrace of ...
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 North Korea's series ...
The 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 ministers at an Asian security forum in ...
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 International Atomic Energy Agency boarded a Tokyo-bound flight from Vienna at ...
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 ...
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, Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara and his counterpart Kim Sung-Hwan agreed ...
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 ...
