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North Korea has announced that it has begun the ‘last phase’ in the process of enriching uranium to build nuclear weapons. At the same time, the North Korean communist regime said it is also into the parallel process of extracting plutonium from the nuclear fuel rods stored at its Yongbyon reactor. The North Korean delegation at the UN in a letter [...]

North Korea takes a confident stance regarding its nuclear weapons program. According to the country’s state media, “Uranium enrichment tests have been successfully carried out and that process is in the concluding stage.” This brings yet another worry to anti-nuclearization critics of the communist regime. Now that ‘North Korea has entered [...]

Pyongyang has proven its nuclear doggedness. In spite of tremendous international criticism that puts North Korea in a pariah state, it has gone ahead to test nuclear and ballistic missile weapons. Add to that is its ‘nuclear technology proliferation to terrorist-supporting states,’ plus its mounting human-rights abuses. Those opposed to North [...]

Nuclear weapons are otherwise regarded as evil, immoral, and illegal. The only justification there is for owning some and the only legitimate function of these weapons is deterrence. In the light of much paranoia happening around as to who has nuclear weapons and just who has the business of telling owners they should not have them, the question remains: [...]

Burmese Court and Burma’s military dictatorship did what the world and Aung San Suu Kyi herself had been speculating. They found her guilty of violating terms of previous house arrest and sentenced her to 18 more months of house arrest. She had committed ‘crime’ of giving shelter to an eccentric American. Meanwhile American John Yettaw too will [...]

Aware of the Iranian determination to enrich enough uranium to produce the country’s own atomic bomb, Barack Obama’s Nowruz video is an unprecedented move to offer dialogue with a nation that the US has been having difficult relations with. Taking advantage of the celebrations of the traditional Persian New Year, the US president made a display [...]

In good faith, Iran receives US President Barack Obama’s conciliatory message to the Iranian people but the country feels that any reconciliation needs ‘a concrete step forward.’ This is according to Ali Akbar Javanfaker, one of the closest advisers to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Javanfaker said, “We receive the message in good faith, [...]

Mugabe, an extremely lucky person who is a direct beneficiary of how the free world has too short a memory, scored yet another stroke of luck when Southern Africa political leaders resolved that the relic of a tyrant and his military junta a.k.a. goons can go ahead, as usual, and continue administering the army and the police of Zimbabwe. Mugabe must [...]