The United States, he explained, has insisted not only on nuclear disarmament but also on US verification of nuclear disarmament before sanctions relief.
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Russian espionage and nuclear disarmament are back in the news.
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That session was convened to discuss nuclear disarmament by Pyongyang.
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Experts have said that nuclear disarmament could take 15 years.
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Going into the summit, Pyongyang repeatedly rejected unilateral nuclear disarmament.
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After the war, he was a strong supporter of nuclear disarmament.
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Together, these three sites stand as a powerful symbol for nuclear disarmament.
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Trump's calls for nuclear disarmament were also well-known to the Russians.
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The membership is divided over the best path forward on nuclear disarmament.
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That movement is the most important initiative for nuclear disarmament in a generation.
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I would love to see Pyongyang accept unilateral nuclear disarmament, as Libya did.
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He also said Russia was not giving up its responsibilities for nuclear disarmament.
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Officials from both countries also discussed Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament efforts and international sanctions.
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Mr. Bolton is there to officially withdraw from the I.N.F. nuclear disarmament treaty.
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Reagan and Gorbachev came tantalizing close in 1986 to agreeing on nuclear disarmament.
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That is how the rest of the world is moving towards nuclear disarmament.
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Trump said he would bring up the issue of nuclear disarmament with Putin.
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It&aposs also a component when dealing with something as important as nuclear disarmament.
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The two leaders nearly agreed to complete nuclear disarmament, but the talks ultimately failed.
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Per ABC, Putin said that Russia "will be striving to achieve" global nuclear disarmament.
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This is evident in his meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev over their nuclear disarmament treaty.
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He will be the group's chief lobbyist for nuclear disarmament and military spending issues.
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But Mr. Trump's calls for nuclear disarmament were also well-known to the Russians.
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She loved learning about the big topics of the day — Medicare, unions, nuclear disarmament.
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In a time of so many profound worries, why should we prioritize nuclear disarmament?
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He joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament at fifteen and Labour the following year.
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How far could nuclear disarmament advance five, ten years after the treaty is created?
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She's big on refugee and missing persons work, as well as nuclear disarmament these days.
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Pompeo is heading to Pyongyang hoping to hammer out a roadmap for its nuclear disarmament.
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The exchange suggests that talks between the pair on nuclear disarmament are making progress again.
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"There is no mention of America's main goal: North Korean nuclear disarmament," he told me.
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He was the first president to make nuclear disarmament a centerpiece of American defense policy.
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In fact, what Pyongyang craves, more than anything else, is nuclear acceptance, not nuclear disarmament.
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The United Nations Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) is exploring legal provisions for nuclear disarmament.
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Leadership analysis might give clues MORE by sitting down with him for nuclear disarmament talks.
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Nazarbayev not only embraced nuclear disarmament but made it a part of his country's brand.
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Nuclear disarmament proponents meanwhile hope Obama's visit will breath fresh life into a stalled process.
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A few logos of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which Mr Corbyn helped run, were visible.
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Mr Thae argues that Mr Kim has cleverly shifted the emphasis from nuclear disarmament to "peace".
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People would come, we would have dinner, discuss politics, everything from nuclear disarmament to civil rights.
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And the 'asks' were huge: North Korean nuclear disarmament and a considerable improvement in trade balance.
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Mr. Kim even surprised the South Koreans with his willingness to start negotiations on nuclear disarmament.
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North Korea has long rejected unilateral nuclear disarmament, instead referring to the denuclearisation of the peninsula.
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Mr. Kim's travels to Russia come as negotiations over nuclear disarmament deteriorate with the United States.
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After the meeting both sides declared a new friendship and made vague pledges of nuclear disarmament.
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North Korea has often rejected unilateral nuclear disarmament, instead referring to the denuclearization of the peninsula.
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Their first summit last June in Singapore ended without substantive agreements on the North's nuclear disarmament and triggered a months-long stalemate in negotiations as Washington and Pyongyang struggled with the sequencing of North Korea's nuclear disarmament and the removal of U.S.-led sanctions against the North.
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The missiles were idled by nuclear disarmament treaties between the United States and Russia in the 1990s.
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The Obama administration at the time denied any connection between the intervention and the previous nuclear disarmament.
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The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament denounced the church service as "morally repugnant" and staged a "die-in".
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Once there, Mr Trump suggests, he should present a plan for complete, verifiable and irreversible nuclear disarmament.
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"The discontinuance of the nuclear test is an important process moving towards global nuclear disarmament," KCNA said.
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And one thing to keep in mind: Nuclear disarmament in North Korea would be a monumental task.
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And an objective shared by all three — North Korea's nuclear disarmament — may see little or no progress.
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Previous negotiations with Kim have produced monster publicity and very little in the way of nuclear disarmament.
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BONGINO: His resume on international nuclear disarmament talks, though, I am reasonably confident, Laura, it&aposs quite thin.
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He spoke with Kim Jong-un about nuclear disarmament and a general diffusion of tension with Western powers.
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Still, there was never any chance that a deal on nuclear disarmament would be agreed without American input.
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The Berlin Wall fell four years after Fitz-Hume and Millbridge laughed their way through nuclear disarmament talks.
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Harris said the suspension of drills provides "breathing space" for progress in negotiating North Korea&aposs nuclear disarmament.
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The feedback loop, in which instability promotes proliferation, brings into sharp focus the need to promote nuclear disarmament.
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We reach this point after a sad history of missed opportunities for peace in space and nuclear disarmament.
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Americans understand the word as describing North Korea's full nuclear disarmament, which is very difficult to imagine happening.
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Anthony Wier is Legislative Secretary for Nuclear Disarmament and Pentagon Spending at the Friends Committee on National Legislation.
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His mother worked at a gift shop; her parents were actively involved in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
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In the meanwhile, the United States should cooperate with other countries in developing methods for nuclear disarmament verification.
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" Trump also dismissed the New START agreement, a key US-Russia nuclear disarmament treaty, as "a one-sided deal.
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It is a critical component of his nuclear disarmament agenda and a major piece of his foreign policy legacy.
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One was in 1980-53, when Michael Foot committed Labour to unilateral nuclear disarmament and shrinking the armed forces.
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He is now the legislative secretary for nuclear disarmament and defense spending at the Friends Committee on National Legislation.
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Whether nuclear disarmament is indeed the final outcome of Tuesday's summit won't be known for years, if not decades.
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In recent days, Kim has cast some doubt on the planned summit as talks of complete nuclear disarmament heightened.
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Dashed hopes for much more – immediate nuclear disarmament by North Korea — could ramp up tensions rather than reduce them.
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" The symbol also combined the semaphores, or flag-signaling codes, for the letters "N" and "D," or "Nuclear Disarmament.
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But scrapping that treaty, he said, did not unravel the nuclear disarmament architecture between the United States and Russia.
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Indeed, "complete, verifiable and irreversible nuclear disarmament" has been the goal of every president since 1993 if not earlier.
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We should be in the business of nuclear disarmament right now, which neither of these candidates are talking about.
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Putin provided Trump's negotiators with a list of "specific suggestions" related to nuclear disarmament, the Russian leader said Monday.
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But even though both sides have toned down their fiery threats and begun nuclear disarmament talks, the attacks persist.
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These changes could water down any nuclear disarmament agreement and turn concrete pledges into statements of intent that are meaningless.
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That's exactly what President Reagan did in nuclear disarmament talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, forcing Gorbachev to back down.
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The former vice-chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament campaigned on a manifesto pledge to maintain Britain's nuclear deterrent.
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And, indeed, the increased tension between the US and Russia makes it more difficult to make progress toward nuclear disarmament.
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Both parties spoke about North Korea's nuclear disarmament efforts and international sanctions, but provided few other details on the meeting.
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Mr Corbyn, a veteran campaigner for unilateral nuclear disarmament, is determined to end Labour's commitment to maintaining the nuclear deterrent.
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Trump's newly reported hesitation comes after North Korea released statements last week rejecting the US call for immediate nuclear disarmament.
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Mr. Abe is expected to get a political lift, and ordinary Japanese have embraced Mr. Obama's support for nuclear disarmament.
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His comments came as he talked about his relationship with Kim after a summit between the pair on nuclear disarmament.
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The invitation comes as the U.S. and North Korea prepare for their June 12 summit meeting to discuss nuclear disarmament.
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Mr. Lavrov said that Russia does support negotiations over nuclear disarmament with North Korea — Mr. Trump's signature foreign policy initiative.
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Mr. Putin made a public show of support for North Korea on nuclear disarmament, seeming to undermine President Trump's approach.
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Even after John Bolton departed as national security adviser, hardline factions insist on complete, irreversible, verifiable, and fast nuclear disarmament.
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It included overhauling the war on drugs, nuclear disarmament, improving public education and universal healthcare -- issues that still resonate today.
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Some experts said that this theater, rather than the grinding business of nuclear disarmament, is what appeals to Mr. Trump.
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Dr. Oreskes said the closest parallel to Saturday's protests were the demonstrations for nuclear disarmament in the 1950s and '60s.
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We discussed why this push is unfolding now, her hopes for the treaty, and what comes next for nuclear disarmament.
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A nuclear disarmament activist, Dr. Arce often met with the former president, who was an important supporter of the cause.
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Mr. Kim is seeking support for sanctions relief and a gradual approach to nuclear disarmament that the Trump administration opposes.
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His main achievement was an even emptier nuclear disarmament pledge than those Kim's predecessors made in 1994 and 2005 and violated.
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Moreover, at the third summit held in Pyongyang in last September, the world anticipated the possibility of North Korean nuclear disarmament.
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When that was started last year, there was little prospect of a Trump-Kim summit or of North Korean nuclear disarmament.
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She previously worked as an English-language interpreter for a North Korean delegation attending now-stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks.
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Every single promise Kim Jong Un and his father have made on nuclear disarmament has turned out to be a lie.
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Obama's main goal in Hiroshima was to showcase his nuclear disarmament agenda, for which he won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
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That also surprises me; that the rebel forces would want Rashad dead so badly that they would agree to nuclear disarmament.
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He instead framed the May 27 visit as a chance to honor the dead and support the cause of nuclear disarmament.
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North Korea has indicated in recent years that it can discuss its nuclear disarmament only in the context of global denuclearization.
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They will be freed of fear of nuclear aggression if they can change their international focus from nuclear disarmament to nonproliferation.
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But critics note Obama has made scant progress towards nuclear disarmament and is spending heavily to modernize the U.S. atomic arsenal.
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The conference has also negotiated the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament efforts, and the convention against biological weapons.
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Critics argue that the upgrades are too costly, unnecessary, and counter to the long-term global goal of achieving nuclear disarmament.
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Mr. Moon officially supports the enforcement of United Nations sanctions as a tool to bring the North to nuclear disarmament talks.
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As President Obama's special representative for North Korea policy, he sought to persuade the Pyongyang government to enter into nuclear disarmament negotiations.
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Corbyn was skeptical about the European Union, supported for nationalizing the rail and steel industries, and was committed to unilateral nuclear disarmament.
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He is a former vice-chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament who has long campaigned to scrap Britain's Trident nuclear weapons.
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COMING UP TODAY • A discussion of the role of African-Americans in the nuclear disarmament movement at Word Bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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Nye Bevan slammed supporters of unilateral nuclear disarmament with a rhetorical flourish about sending a foreign secretary "naked into the conference chamber".
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Previous rulers have promised nuclear disarmament more than once in exchange for economic concessions and aid, only to repeatedly backtrack on commitments.
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If foreign diplomats take them less seriously, it makes any discussion on issues from peacekeeping to trade to nuclear disarmament less productive.
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It would also encourage nuclear disarmament worldwide, while strengthening sanctions against countries like North Korea that test their nuclear weapons, Moniz writes.
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Her likely successor is the SNP's Gail Robertson, an opponent of Trident and a member of the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
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The deep divisions between nuclear haves and have-nots reflect misplaced priorities yet, also put global nuclear disarmament efforts in dim lights.
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First, the Kim government threatened to pull out, blaming the "repugnance" of national security adviser John Bolton and his nuclear disarmament schemes.
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But Pyongyang last week suggested it could withdraw from the talks if the United States pursues "unilateral" nuclear disarmament from North Korea.
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There's a palpable fear of being on the brink of nuclear war, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has begun to mobilize.
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But even as the U.S. demands nuclear disarmament abroad, it's expanding its own nuclear arsenal — reviving, in the process, fears of doomsday.
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Pope Francis emphasized a "strong link" between human rights and nuclear disarmament while addressing an audience in St. Peter's Square on Sunday.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday appealed for nuclear disarmament, environmental protection and religious tolerance.
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Eavis told the Guardian that he believes in Corbyn's policies such as his stance on education, hospitals, social care, and nuclear disarmament.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the United States wants North Korea to take major nuclear disarmament steps within the next two years.
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Obama's visit will be a symbolic capstone for the nuclear disarmament agenda he laid out in a landmark speech in Prague in 2009.
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If people are reminded how their lives could be affected by nuclear weapons, they might be more likely to push for nuclear disarmament.
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Some experts say South Korea can&apost agree on any drastic measures to reduce animosity unless the North takes serious nuclear disarmament steps.
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One would lift the penalties if Russia can demonstrate it's a dependable ally Another would ice the sanctions for concessions in nuclear disarmament.
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In sharp contrast to the official rhetoric, proponents of nuclear disarmament: the United Kingdom; France; Israel; Russia and the United States voted no.
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The report said Trump wanted to talk about nuclear disarmament with Putin and that the president-elect wanted to meet him outside Russia.
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North Korea is desperate to win sanctions relief, but U.S. officials have maintained North Korea must first take significant steps toward nuclear disarmament.
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Appearing beside Trump in the Oval Office, Haley touted making progress on issues including trade and nuclear disarmament in Iran and North Korea.
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But the United States insists it will never enter any serious negotiations or ease sanctions until the North commits itself to nuclear disarmament.
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Kingston Reif, who researches nuclear disarmament at the Arms Control Association, pointed out that the United States has long had powerful nuclear capabilities.
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Hyde Park was the scene of several anti-fascist rallies between the wars; the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament attracted 93,000 marchers in 1983.
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" Beijing swiftly denied that account just days later, saying they would "not take part in any trilateral negotiations on a nuclear disarmament agreement.
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North Korea is already threatening to walk away from the talks if the US won't recognize that nuclear disarmament is off the table.
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The Non-Proliferation Treaty will remain the primary international legal instrument for promoting nuclear disarmament and preventing the further spread of such weapons.
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Edward and Florence's impromptu meet-cute, at an Oxford University nuclear disarmament meeting, suggests a willingness to break free from their parents' conventional mores.
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Holtom was inspired by the "N" and "D" semaphore flag signals — standing for "nuclear disarmament" — and also by his own anguish at the world.
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Aides say Obama's main objective in Hiroshima, where he will lay a wreath at a peace memorial, is to showcase his nuclear disarmament agenda.
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Replacing Trident, the U.K.'s nuclear weapons system, will cost "at least" £205 billion ($295 billion), according to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
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I know that FLI does work with issues like nuclear disarmament, but it made spreading the word about AI safety its first major goal.
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"The suspension of nuclear testing is an important process for global nuclear disarmament," Kim said, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
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U.S. Ambassador Robert Wood said negotiators needed to "look reality in the eye" and accept that nuclear disarmament in the near term was unrealistic.
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Trump would have found it difficult squaring his tough talk and steep demand of total nuclear disarmament with the give-and-take of diplomacy.
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But their publicly amicable relationship has done little to expedite the nuclear disarmament of the Korean Peninsula, nor have any of their three meetings.
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A recent opinion poll shows that 76.9 percent of South Koreans support the resumption of the inter-Korean dialog about peace and nuclear disarmament.
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These keep nuclear disarmament and the capacity of the original treaty to achieve it through arms control and reductions high on the global agenda.
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The theory was, the country would save itself by surrendering to American demands, including nuclear disarmament, for relief from economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation.
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In 1982, Mr. Graham displeased the Reagan administration when, after a visit to the Soviet Union, he spoke in favor of universal nuclear disarmament.
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Russell's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the British Council for Peace in Vietnam organized demonstrations in Washington and outside 10 Downing Street in London.
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By touting the Libyan model (nuclear disarmament, then United States-backed regime change), they stoked fears that they should have been working to assuage.
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The pope pointed out what he said was "the strong link between human rights and nuclear disarmament," in comments reported by The Associated Press.
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It could even happen sooner than many people think if the British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, long a nuclear disarmament activist, becomes prime minister.
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" Gorbachev added that "all agreements aimed at nuclear disarmament and the limitation of nuclear weapons must be preserved for the sake of life on Earth.
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Kerry and the other ministers will visit Peace Memorial Park, a World War II memorial and museum that has become a symbol for nuclear disarmament.
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Saruhashi worked to support female scientists, and in 1958 she co-founded the Society of Japanese Women Scientists, which pushed for nuclear disarmament and peace.
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Trump and Kim's second face-to-face summit ended abruptly early Thursday before they could reach a deal on nuclear disarmament of the Korean Peninsula.
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"To me, right now, it's a lot of bluster," said Philip Yun, executive director of the Ploughshares Fund, a group that calls for nuclear disarmament.
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While lacking key details, the recent announcement concerning nuclear disarmament comes after months of intense pressure from the White House against North Korea's nuclear program.
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He also attempted to induce the American president to trade away SDI in exchange for total nuclear disarmament at the Reykjavík Summit in October 1986.
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The Marshall Islands said it was seeking to revive the fading debate about nuclear disarmament and warn about the dangers of a new arms race.
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Walking away from one nuclear disarmament deal while trying to strike another would be a trick, even for a self-proclaimed dealmaker like Mr. Trump.
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One idea could be to discuss a freeze in North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, which would fall short of current demands for nuclear disarmament.
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Back in 1958, British artist Gerald Holtom designed the symbol for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) on the occasion of its first major march.
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Under the treaty, states that didn't have nuclear weapons pledged not to develop or acquire them, while those that did committed to eventual nuclear disarmament.
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Complete North Korean nuclear disarmament should remain our official and eventual goal, and most U.S. sanctions should remain in place unless that objective is achieved.
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And even as the U.S. demands nuclear disarmament abroad, it is rejuvenating and expanding its own nuclear capacity — reviving, in the process, fears of doomsday.
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It has the most leverage on the North, and wants to reward it for each step toward nuclear disarmament — an approach the White House rejects.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday that he would travel to North Korea next week to continue negotiations over the country's nuclear disarmament.
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Instead, according to the Post interview, Moon said concessions would only be offered to North Korea if the country took clear steps toward nuclear disarmament.
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I don't believe Kim is talking about any fundamental quid pro quo that would result in North Korea's nuclear disarmament in the near-term future.
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While the Pope did not discuss North Korea or Hawaii, he has frequently spoken about the deadly risks of nuclear war and called for nuclear disarmament.
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" Gorbachev said Sunday that "all agreements aimed at nuclear disarmament and the limitation of nuclear weapons must be preserved for the sake of life on Earth.
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Mr Pompeo was to meet negotiators in Pyongyang, but President Donald Trump said the talks on nuclear disarmament were not advancing, for which he blamed China.
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It is also my hometown, and so the issue of nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation has always had a special resonance for myself and others living here.
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" Unless "a firm foundation" for North Korea's verifiable nuclear disarmament were laid out, he added, most of the other commitments in the agreement were "merely wishes.
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Behind the scenes, Trump may also insist that the Chinese work to convince the North Korean government in Pyongyang to open nuclear disarmament discussions with Washington.
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"The United States appears to be adopting more realistic tactics on nuclear disarmament, but not more realistic objectives," said Mount, at the Federation of American Scientists.
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He was updated again on Wednesday morning after additional statements emerged from North Korea's disarmament negotiator rejecting the US call for immediate nuclear disarmament, officials said.
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"All agreements aimed at nuclear disarmament and limiting nuclear weapons must be preserved, for the sake of preserving life on earth," Mr. Gorbachev said on Sunday.
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North Korea and the United States made similar, broadly worded commitments in the past, in nuclear disarmament accords signed in 1994 and in 2005, for example.
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The same cannot be said of the current policies of the two biggest nuclear-armed states, neither of which is showing serious commitment to nuclear disarmament.
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Like North Korea, where, despite Trump's hyperbole at the Singapore summit with Kim this summer, there has been no confirmed nuclear disarmament by the Hermit Kingdom.
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"There is no more important issue than the nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, which must be addressed in a global context," it quoted Mr. Trump as saying.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Saturday on Russia's Channel One network that this was a "diplomatic necessity" given various US-Russia issues, including nuclear disarmament and Syria.
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We must break this cycle of lie upon lie once and for all, while testing Kim's intentions to see if he is truly serious about nuclear disarmament.
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The leaders of North and South Korea met for the first time on Friday, struck an accord to work toward peace and pledged to attempt nuclear disarmament.
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Joseph Dunford were consulted on Trump's announcement that the Pentagon will hold off on military exercises with South Korea during ongoing nuclear disarmament negotiations with North Korea.
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On Wednesday, the President was briefed on additional statements from North Korea's disarmament negotiator rejecting the US call for immediate nuclear disarmament and going after Bolton himself.
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In fact, the administration's recent hardline position of demanding full nuclear disarmament before any sanctions relief will only push Kim to strengthen ties with Beijing and Moscow.
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"President Obama should tell the world that he has not forgotten the promise he made in his Prague speech to work for global nuclear disarmament," the Rev.
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Diana Ohlbaum is Legislative Director for Foreign Policy and Anthony Wier is Legislative Secretary for Nuclear Disarmament and Pentagon Spending at the Friends Committee on National Legislation.
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Carefully crafted language structured ambiguity into the treaty regarding the aim of those nations for "good faith negotiations" to pursue arms control and ultimately complete nuclear disarmament.
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But a brief look at the history of the Peace Prize is enough to understand that a "timely reinforcement" will do almost nothing to further nuclear disarmament.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo headed to North Korea on Friday in an effort to hammer out some actual details to push the country toward nuclear disarmament.
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On May 12 there is a deadline for President Trump's administration to decide whether to pull out or to remain in the nuclear disarmament agreement with Iran.
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But after a few years of tightening response times and near-miss incidents, he became the most enthusiastic proponent of nuclear disarmament to occupy the Oval Office.
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As President Donald Trump steps up efforts to engage North Korea in nuclear disarmament talks, the State Department is in the most turmoil since the president's inauguration.
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It is now 71 years since the UN General Assembly, in its very first resolution, advocated the importance of nuclear disarmament and a nuclear weapon-free world.
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China also disapproves of the American policy of maximum pressure on North Korea to force a nuclear disarmament without security guarantees and the lifting of debilitating economic sanctions.
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"He just advised me to add that the [Viktor] Yanukovych government also worked actively with the US on nuclear disarmament and with NATO," Voloshyn told Bloomberg about Manafort.
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A much-anticipated summit between Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump in Singapore last year had raised hopes of nuclear disarmament by the North Korea leader.
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There is still no solid date set for a further meeting between Trump and Kim, but Pyongyang seems unlikely to acquiesce to U.S. demands for complete nuclear disarmament.
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Even if every nation was to take part in nuclear disarmament, and uranium mining was halted, subsequent generations would still have to deal with all the industry's waste.
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"The threat here is, to me right now, it's a lot of bluster," said Philip Yun, executive director of the Ploughshares Fund, a group that advocates nuclear disarmament.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday called on world leaders to work in favor of nuclear disarmament to protect human rights, particularly those of weaker and underprivileged people.
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North Korea threw the June 12 summit into doubt on Wednesday when it said it may not show up if the U.S. continues to demand "unilateral" nuclear disarmament.
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What guarantees failure, however, is to continue following the stale Washington playbook that has proved so ineffective over the past 25 years: demanding full nuclear disarmament up front.
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Realistically managing expectations, Secretary Pompeo emphasized the United States wanted North Korea to take "major nuclear disarmament steps" before the end of President Trump's first term in 2021.
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In Moscow, Mr. Bolton said he had directly criticized Russian officials for meddling in U.S. elections, and that a landmark nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia was now outdated.
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Commonweal people were very much part of the ND [Nuclear Disarmament] movement here in the late 50s and early 60s, and Commonweal acquired many archives from such activists.
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North Korea: The country's leader, Kim Jong-un, is in Russia today meeting with President Vladimir Putin for the first time to talk about sanctions and nuclear disarmament.
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Mr. Abe has been concerned that Mr. Trump might make a deal with North Korea that would address nuclear disarmament but not Tokyo's worries about short-range missiles.
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That platform included more-sweeping nationalization and unilateral nuclear disarmament, and one Labour lawmaker at the time described the 1983 manifesto as "the longest suicide note in history."
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In 2186, Barack Obama, the first incumbent U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, gave a speech emphasizing nuclear disarmament and met bombing survivors, embracing one elderly man, who wept.
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The outlook for the meeting soured dramatically this month when North Korea angrily rejected the notion that it would agree to unilateral nuclear disarmament as Washington has demanded.
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They get access to super-secret information and help figure out what the US State Department should do about arms control, nuclear disarmament, and other key international security questions.
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They said both Trump and Moon should be blamed for not specifying steps and deadlines for North Korea&aposs nuclear disarmament, allowing it time to perfect its weapons program.
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Elsewhere in trade: John Bolton, Mr. Trump's new national security adviser, suggested that the U.S. won't offer sanctions relief to North Korea until the country commits to nuclear disarmament.
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The construction was interpreted as a signal that the country might resume testing missiles if it did not get its way in stalled talks with America about nuclear disarmament.
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This week, Kim drew a line in the sand for the planned summit with Trump by threatening to cancel if the United States continues to demand "unilateral" nuclear disarmament.
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The penalties are part of the Treasury Department's newest effort to punish North Korea's economic benefactors as the Trump administration looks to achieve a nuclear disarmament deal with Pyongyang.
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Whatever it is, it's a sign North Korea is ready to go back to a more antagonistic relationship with the US if nuclear disarmament talks continue to go poorly.
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But he said Kerry would express the sorrow that all feel upon reflection about the bombing and use the occasion to promote President Barack Obama's vision of nuclear disarmament.
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As talks between the Trump administration and North Korea over nuclear disarmament stall, Japan will look to Mr. Trump for reassurance that the United States remains a staunch ally.
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Mr. Bolton traveled to Moscow after Mr. Trump said on Saturday that the United States would withdraw from a nuclear disarmament treaty, the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
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TOKYO — Sumiteru Taniguchi, who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki as a teenager and went on to become a leading advocate for nuclear disarmament, died on Wednesday in Nagasaki.
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The rest — such as trading the suspension of nuclear and ballistic missile tests against the suspension of U.S.-South Korean military exercises — are diversions from North Korea's nuclear disarmament.
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Bolton stopped it by insisting on the North's full and complete nuclear disarmament up front, a condition Kim could not accept because his regime cannot survive without its weapons.
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WORK "A Walk in the Woods" NEGOTIATION Several fictional summits on nuclear disarmament, inspired by the 1982 "walk in the woods" between an American diplomat and a Soviet ambassador.
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It was always unrealistic to believe that Pyongyang would move rapidly toward nuclear disarmament without Washington taking concrete steps to end what North Korea sees as a hostile policy.
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But American leaders should not fear to negotiate or to accept an interim deal on the path to what we still hope will be eventual North Korean nuclear disarmament.
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In fact, in a recent letter reportedly authored by Kim Jong Un to his foreign ministry, he discussed "protecting our nuclear power" – not exactly a ringing endorsement of nuclear disarmament.
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South Korea&aposs Foreign Ministry says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un&aposs current visit to China highlights the "constructive role" Beijing could play in North Korea&aposs nuclear disarmament.
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Statements relayed by the official news agency made it clear that economic assistance would not be sufficient recompense for nuclear disarmament, as Mr Kim seemed to suggest only last week.
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Members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) chanted "shame on you" as Prince William arrived alongside Penny Mordaunt, in her first official engagement as defense secretary, the BBC reports.
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Their supporters say these new scientist-legislators, all of them Democrats, will bring a fact-based approach to public policy and impact such issues as nuclear disarmament and climate change.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres unveiled a global disarmament strategy on Thursday just as U.S. President Donald Trump canceled a summit on nuclear disarmament with North Korea's leader.
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Trump first met Kim in Singapore in June 2018 for a historic and unprecedented meeting that ended with declarations of a new friendship but only vague pledges about nuclear disarmament.
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"Around the world today, we see self-centered nationalism in ascendance, tensions heightened by international exclusivity and rivalry, with nuclear disarmament at a standstill," Matsui said in his peace declaration.
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Mr. Pompeo has been pressing Pyongyang to follow up on the vague commitment to nuclear disarmament that Mr. Kim made in June, when he met with Mr. Trump in Singapore.
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If Kim Jong Un persists in backing off from a strong nuclear disarmament pledge, President Trump must channel his inner Ronald Reagan , get up from the negotiating table and walk out.
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Some analysts and media commentators expressed skepticism about the lack of specifics in the accord struck on Friday by the two countries to work toward nuclear disarmament and a peace treaty.
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Douglas, 71, said he was also a friend of Donald Trump, but he was not confident the United States would make any advances in nuclear disarmament if Trump won the presidency.
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They think it would strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which requires officially recognised nuclear states to make efforts towards eventual nuclear disarmament, something critics accuse them of failing to do.
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"Putin's decree could signal that other nuclear disarmament cooperation deals between the United States and Russia are at risk of being undermined," Stratfor, a U.S.-based consultancy, said in a commentary.
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Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue urged Japan&aposs government to do more to lead nuclear disarmament, especially in the region to help advance the efforts to achieve a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.
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This would not win over those fundamentally opposed to unilateral nuclear disarmament; but nor would it sound as ludicrous as sending expensive ballistic-missile submarines to sea without their ballistic missiles.
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It has been a longtime trend in arms control and nuclear disarmament discourse to heavily imply that nuclear war will be the "great equalizer," impacting all of humanity across the board.
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"Even in these difficult times, the United States will seek the development of measures that may be effective in creating the conditions for future nuclear disarmament negotiations," he told the forum.
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North Korea stunned Washington on Tuesday by threatening to abandon talks between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un if Washington insists on pushing it "into a corner" on nuclear disarmament.
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I agree that our goal in North Korea should be nuclear disarmament in the long term, but we also need normalization in the medium term and deescalation in the short term.
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"They come back as 'address nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation and the use of nuclear weapons,' or 'reverse and mitigate climate change,' " which the staff has to interpret into more specific plans.
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Kim Jong-un of North Korea has sent word to the Trump Administration that he hopes to conclude nuclear disarmament before the end of Mr. Trump's presidential term in early 2021.
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North Korea has already secured major concessions, like a cessation of joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea, all without making a firm commitment to full nuclear disarmament.
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Japanese news outlets reported this week that during his meeting with Mr. Kim, Mr. Putin could call for the reopening of so-called six-party talks on the North's nuclear disarmament.
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Iran, as you have probably heard, recently signed a major diplomatic agreement with the United States and other world powers, whose terms involve verifiable nuclear disarmament in exchange for sanctions relief.
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But a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that nuclear disarmament was an "aspirational goal" only, and it was hard to conceive of it in the near term.
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It may be that President Trump toned down his rhetoric to give Kim Jong Un space to deal with hardliners in his government and military who oppose making nuclear disarmament a reality.
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The thawing of relations between North and South Korea continued Wednesday when their leaders reached key agreements on nuclear disarmament and even announced plans to bid to jointly host the 2032 Olympics.
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It said the parties were committed to ridding the world of nuclear weapons and would launch a new diplomatic drive for nuclear disarmament, pushing for a more European approach on many issues.
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As the only country to have experienced atomic bombings, we vigorously support nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation efforts, submitting resolutions at the United Nations every year calling for the eradication of nuclear weapons.
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Gorbachev, writing in government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta, said the INF treaty was in danger and that Trump and Putin needed to meet and discuss the problems of nuclear disarmament and strategic stability.
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He craves international stature but his main aim is "regime survival" and perpetuating his family dynasty, suggesting it will be hard for him to agree to full nuclear disarmament, the officials said.
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This matters in a cybersecurity context because Trump has suggested trading a reduction of sanctions with Russia for nuclear disarmament, suggesting he might not have researched the framework he'd be dealing with.
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The G7 foreign ministers' trip to the museum and memorial is part of Japan's effort to send a strong nuclear disarmament message from Hiroshima, the world's first city to suffer atomic bombing.
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In 1968, the UN ratified the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as a way to approach nuclear disarmament by depleting nuclear stockpiles over time, rather than an outright ban.
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Another casualty of the treaty's expiration could be global nonproliferation, making non-nuclear states doubt the United States and Russia will keep working toward nuclear disarmament under the NPT, the study said.
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Analysts believe Mr. Xi will try to revive failed nuclear disarmament talks between President Trump and Kim Jong-un — a proposal that he could use to ease U.S.-China tensions over trade.
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For Mr. Trump, the ability to announce a deal with China would constitute a victory for a presidency rocked by legal investigations and failed nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea last week.
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The two presidents reaffirmed their determination to maximize sanctions to stop North Korea from further advancing its technologies and to pressure it to return to nuclear disarmament talks, Mr. Moon's office said.
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Mr. Yoon, who moved to the United States from South Korea 18 years ago, added that he has little faith that Mr. Kim has good intentions when it comes to nuclear disarmament.
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By 2009, after months of provocative behavior, Pyongyang said it would permanently pull out of nuclear disarmament talks and restart its nuclear program, and it expelled United Nations inspectors from the country.
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President Heine called Mr. de Brum a "national hero" for advocating for nuclear disarmament and for giving the Marshall Islands, in the central Pacific, an outsize voice in global climate-change negotiations.
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Strategic patience meant the Obama White House refused to offer new incentives to induce the North Koreans to turn back to nuclear disarmament parleys in the wake of the Bush administration's debacle.
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Mr. Metzger worked for several years as a junk dealer in King's Lynn, Norfolk, where he became involved in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and developed his theory of auto-destructive art.
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On December 2, North Korea warned it could resume long-distance missile tests in the next few weeks if the US does not change its negotiating position on the regime's nuclear disarmament.
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President Reagan did it during negotiations on nuclear disarmament with the Soviet Union at the 1986 Reykjavik summit in Iceland, when the Soviets dug in their heels on the issue of missile defense.
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To justify the suspension of the drills, the United States will need to coax North Korea to reciprocate with significant steps that push the nuclear disarmament process firmly forward, Yeol Soo Kim said.
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Henrik Urdal, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, said nuclear disarmament on the Korean peninsula "would be a very significant achievement and the committee would have to consider it" for an award.
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Designed in 1958 by Gerald Holtom for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, its subsequent adoption by the American Student Peace Union helped make the peace sign a symbol of 1960s Vietnam protests.
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While it was an apparent goodwill gesture by North Korea toward the United States, the return comes amid growing skepticism about whether the North will follow through on its pledge of nuclear disarmament.
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"We need action and leadership from Japan...Japan can be moral authority on nuclear disarmament, and that can begin with Prime Minister (Shinzo) Abe joining the treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons," she said.
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But those sanctions are increasingly porous, and North Korea, supported by its friends and neighbors, won't yield on nuclear disarmament until it gets credible security guarantees and a total lifting of economic isolation.
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Seoul (CNN)North Korea has tested a "newly developed ultramodern" weapon in an event supervised by leader Kim Jong Un, state media said Friday, amid faltering nuclear disarmament negotiations with the United States.
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Talks between on North Korea's nuclear disarmament fell apart in February when President Donald Trump rejected Kim's demand for sweeping sanctions relief in return for partial disarmament at their second summit in Vietnam.
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But the vast scope of North Korea's program — and the fact that it has already tested and built nuclear weapons — means it would be the most challenging case of nuclear disarmament in history.
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New York was not only a base for nuclear disarmament groups but also the site of a major protest on Central Park's Great Lawn on June 12, 1982, that drew one million demonstrators.
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New York was not only a base for nuclear disarmament groups but also the site of a major protest on Central Park's Great Lawn on June 12, 1982, that drew one million demonstrators.
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"What we are seeing is basically factionalism and guerrilla warfare inside the administration and the results are predictable," said Wolfsthal, who is now a senior adviser to Global Zero, a nuclear disarmament group.
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North Korea As he prepares for a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump continues to praise the Communist dictator and the progress the two have made toward nuclear disarmament.
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While these two fickle leaders preen and fawn over each other, unnerving the rest of the world with their coy dance around nuclear disarmament, my concerns will be compounded by their familiar surroundings.
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On North Korea, Trump has made no secret about his optimistic view of his approach to Kim and recently announced a second summit with the dictator in a bid to negotiate nuclear disarmament.
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That leader was João Goulart, a man who had the nerve to attempt to nationalize the banks and mineral resources of the country, while leading a campaign for nuclear disarmament across South America.
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On Monday, Putin suspended a treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium, signaling he is willing to use nuclear disarmament as a new bargaining chip in disputes with the United States.
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Trump has hailed the Singapore summit as a success, but skeptics have questioned whether he achieved anything new, given that Pyongyang, which has rejected unilateral nuclear disarmament, appeared to make no new concrete commitments.
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In his mid-70s, Kim Kye Gwan is a veteran diplomat who led the North Korean delegation at much of the now-dormant six-nation nuclear disarmament talks held in Beijing in 2003-2008.
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Although Trump has hailed the Singapore summit as a success, skeptics have questioned whether he achieved anything new, given that Pyongyang, which has rejected unilateral nuclear disarmament, appeared to make no new concrete commitments.
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Michael Moller, U.N. director-general in Geneva, said governments were failing to deal with new and existing challenges such as nuclear disarmament, internet regulation and climate-related migration, and the U.N. needed to respond.
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But the reason previous administrations have not offered such an agreement – or even to hold a summit between the countries' leaders that North Korea has long sought – is that Pyongyang has resisted nuclear disarmament.
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The new penalties are the Treasury Department's latest effort to punish North Korea's economic benefactors as the Trump administration attempts to cement a nuclear disarmament deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's government.
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In a statement after the receipt of the peace prize, the organization's executive director Beatrice Fihn said she had no illusions that the prize would change the minds of world leaders about nuclear disarmament.
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Mr. Moon has repeatedly argued that a nuclear disarmament deal is possible, insisting that Mr. Kim is willing to give up his weapons and focus on economic growth should Washington provide the right incentives.
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The documentary might also be a subtle way for Mr. Kim to prepare his people for their country's nuclear disarmament by raising their expectations for an alternative future, said Professor Kim of Dongguk University.
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I think if Trump goes on that kind of partial nuclear disarmament process instead of denuclearization process, there is no hope for South Korea or America to reach the final denuclearization of North Korea.
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Several of Mr. Trump's own aides, led by national security adviser John R. Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, thought the chances of a grand bargain for total nuclear disarmament were virtually zero.
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In July, the groom's mother will begin working as a program assistant at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame-Project on Revitalizing Catholic Engagement on Nuclear Disarmament.
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The increased tensions come amid a gridlock in dialogue after the second summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump collapsed over U.S. demands for Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament and Kim's demands for relief from sanctions.
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" Gorbachev told Russian news agency Interfax on Sunday, adding that the decision "will undermine all the efforts that were made by the leaders of the USSR and the United States themselves to achieve nuclear disarmament.
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Less than three weeks ago, Pompeo said the United States wanted North Korea to take "major" nuclear disarmament steps within the next two years — before the end of Trump&aposs first term in January 2021.
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Lisbeth Gronlund, co-director of the Union of Concerned Scientists' Global Security Program, said Obama must "do more than give another beautiful speech" and should announce concrete action on nuclear disarmament when he visits Hiroshima.
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In a perilous standoff that has resisted solutions, it was these images that offered hope, much more than the actual results from the meeting — vague pledges to work toward nuclear disarmament and a peace treaty.
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As Sagan's initially crude calculations were replicated and refined by other scientists, Cold War adversaries Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan warned about the horrors of nuclear winter, changing the terms of the nuclear disarmament debate.
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And yet, the President's trip makes it quite clear that despite the fall of the Berlin Wall, nuclear disarmament, and the disintegration of the Soviet empire, the Cold War never really ended in East Asia.
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It follows, although contrary to the current U.S. president's expressed preferences for global nuclear disarmament ( for a "world free of nuclear weapons"), that Israel's nuclear arsenal actually represents a valuable impediment to regional nuclear war.
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On Wednesday, Ronny Abraham, the court's president, acknowledged that the Marshall Islands was motivated to promote nuclear disarmament because of "the suffering of its people" caused by the series of weapons tests on its territory.
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He emphasizes that the personal chemistry between the two new presidents, Obama and Dmitri A. Medvedev, drove forward a range of policies, from nuclear disarmament to efforts to deny Iran the bomb, with tangible success.
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For example, when I spoke in my Birmingham constituency, I explicitly rejected policies like nuclear disarmament, withdrawal from what was then the European Economic Community and wholesale nationalization — key elements in Labour's 1983 party manifesto.
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Through the nineteen-eighties and nineties, Blair was part of the vanguard that dismantled Labour's left-wing platform, including its commitment to nuclear disarmament and Clause IV, which called for the public ownership of industry.
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Talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear and missile programs have been stalled since a second summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump in Vietnam in February broke down in disagreement over nuclear disarmament.
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For the moment, it seems Team Trump wants a clear commitment of total nuclear disarmament from Kim and some big steps towards that goal before even talking about any easing of sanctions or other benefits.
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This caught the Soviets by surprise, and though the two leaders left Iceland with no agreement in hand, Mr. Reagan's bold strategy ultimately laid the path to the greatest period of nuclear disarmament in history.
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" Gorbachev reportedly told Russian news agency Interfax on Sunday, adding that the decision "will undermine all the efforts that were made by the leaders of the USSR and the United States themselves to achieve nuclear disarmament.
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I think the president thinks that it is more important to have nuclear disarmament even if that requires some flattery of a dictator than to make this the time when we talk about human rights violation.
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Judges said that while the Marshall Islands may not be satisfied with progress on nuclear disarmament, it had failed to show that it has any ongoing legal dispute with India fit for the court to adjudicate.
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"That Trump has even been offered a state visit — with all the pomp and ceremony that it will entail — is truly shocking," the chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Dave Webb, said in a statement.
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The increased tensions come amid a gridlock in dialogue after the second summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump collapsed over U.S. demands for Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament and Kim's demands for relief from punishing sanctions.
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In the joint statement, Kim "reaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," but made no reference to a timeline, and going into the summit, Pyongyang repeatedly rejected unilateral nuclear disarmament.
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Or she can try to engage an erratic government that has gone so far as to call her a prostitute, and that has not agreed to discuss the possibility of nuclear disarmament in any future talks.
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Banking on the force of his own personality and their rapport, Mr. Trump offered Mr. Kim the same deal North Korea has rejected for a quarter-century: total nuclear disarmament in exchange for full sanctions relief.
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And of course we know how much Trump relies on social media: He's fired advisers in tweets and written openly about sensitive diplomatic issues, like negotiations with North Korea over the recluse nation's nuclear disarmament plans.
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The message both times was clear: Mr. Kim wants China's support for his approach to nuclear disarmament — a gradual, action-for-action process in which the North is rewarded for each move it takes toward denuclearization.
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As President Nursultan Nazarbayev rightly said earlier this year when he launched his Manifesto "The World, The 21st Century", the cause of nuclear disarmament must be the top priority for the UN in the coming decades.
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Over his remaining terms, he would strengthen his grip on the city, building up a progressive movement by championing not only municipal concerns but also global issues like nuclear disarmament and the Reagan administration's fiscal policies.
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Unless a firm foundation and plan for North Korea's complete verified irreversible nuclear disarmament is laid out with a relatively short schedule (2-3 years), most of the other commitments in the declaration are merely wishes.
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A U.S. administration official, who did not want to be identified, said Trump's aides were being briefed by South Korean officials and were looking for clarity on whether Kim made any meaningful commitment to nuclear disarmament.
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Nuclear-armed nations, including the United States and Russia, back the U.N.'s 1968 nuclear non-proliferation treaty which sets limits on the spread of atomic weapons and has a long-term goal of nuclear disarmament.
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Then on Monday, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres' called for a new global effort to get rid of nuclear weapons, drawing a cautious response from envoys of atomic-armed powers at odds for decades over nuclear disarmament.
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SEATTLE – Retired Seattle Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen, whose outspoken support for nuclear disarmament, gay rights and an expanded role for women in the church made him one of the most controversial U.S. bishops, has died at 96.
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"We oppose any country's attempt to make an issue out of China on arms control and will not participate in any negotiation for a trilateral nuclear disarmament agreement," spokesman Geng Shuang said at his daily press briefing.
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Labour leader Michael Foot, however, was in no mood to concede anything to the spirit of the age; instead the manifesto promised a wholesale Socialist programme, including unilateral nuclear disarmament and withdrawal from the European Economic Community.
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They call for President Obama — who, despite having espoused global nuclear disarmament, has proposed a 30-year, $1 trillion program to "modernize" all facets of the United States nuclear arsenal — to reduce our nuclear weapons to 1,000.
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Throughout his time in politics, Corbyn has devoted himself to causes including nuclear disarmament, Palestinian solidarity, animal rights, gay rights and Irish republicanism — the latter being a source of contention in this election (more on that later).
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Still, even some former Obama administration officials say the administration's insistence that it would not talk to North Korea unless the North agreed that the ultimate outcome was complete nuclear disarmament was a prescription for diplomatic failure.
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She also said she will not benefit financially from the campaign, and any proceeds it nets short of the goal would go to Global Zero, an organization Plame has worked with that advocates for complete nuclear disarmament.
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"Reducing the role of nuclear weapons in national security doctrines and abandoning the nuclear deterrent policy based on the first use of nuclear weapons constitutes the most practical and feasible nuclear disarmament measure at present," Fu said.
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Attributed, probably erroneously, to Lenin describing liberal supporters in the West who could be relied on to spread Bolshevik propaganda, the term "useful idiot" was often applied to members of groups like the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
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Here is a simple way to flush Kim's trap out into the open: Whatever is agreed to on nuclear disarmament needs to be done fast, to test Kim's intentions right away and to gain the upper hand.
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Pundits had long expected Corbyn to get crushed at the polls, and had Theresa May succeeded in running an election focused on the Falklands War, the Irish Republican Army, and unilateral nuclear disarmament, she would have won.
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Trump's comments came on the heels of the historic summit with North Korea, where Trump and Kim met to discuss the prospects of nuclear disarmament on the Korean Peninsula, coming to a historic, if relatively toothless, agreement.
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The conversation between Trump and Moon comes after North Korea suggested last week that it may not participate in the June 12 summit between Kim and Trump if the United States continues to pursues "unilateral" nuclear disarmament.
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In 2014 Mr. de Brum filed lawsuits against nine nations in the International Court of Justice, the United Nations' highest court, arguing that they had breached their obligations under international law by failing to pursue nuclear disarmament.
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This second summit has been met with deep skepticism from Washington insiders, but a deal that includes verifiable nuclear disarmament by North Korea would be cheered at capitals around the world and hailed as Trump's signature achievement.
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In 33, Mr. Young put up for auction at Christie's the manuscripts of two obscure early songs by Mr. Dylan: "Talking Folklore Center," about the old Macdougal Street establishment, and "Go Away You Bomb," about nuclear disarmament.
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Speaking to reporters on a trip to Seoul, where he went to brief South Korean officials, Pompeo was asked if he would like to accomplish major nuclear disarmament within Trump's current term, which ends in January 2021.
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Although Trump has hailed the Singapore summit as a success, skeptics have questioned whether he achieved anything, given that Pyongyang, which has rejected unilateral nuclear disarmament, appeared to make no new tangible commitments in a joint written declaration.
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But Mr. Kim never uttered the word "denuclearization" in public on Friday during the heavily choreographed events, which featured hand-holding and hugging, jokes and smiles, but produced vague pledges to seek nuclear disarmament and a peace treaty.
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The nuclear-weapon states pay lip service to the incremental nuclear disarmament the treaty asks of them while at the same time modernising their forces to face the next 50 years; this makes the nuke-nots ever angrier.
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Those unresolved divisions are why seeking peace and nuclear disarmament are President Moon Jae-in's top priorities in Friday's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said Moon Chung-in, special national security adviser to the president.
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"We reaffirm our commitment to seeking a safer world for all and to creating the conditions for a world without nuclear weapons in a way that promotes international stability," they said in a written declaration on nuclear disarmament.
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The comments come less than 10 days before a planned summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a high-stakes meeting that the US hopes will lead to North Korean nuclear disarmament.
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Rather than continue the unattainable nuclear disarmament effort suggested by Joel S. Wit, it is time to accept the unacceptable that North Korea is a nuclear-armed country and work to ensure that it never uses the bomb.
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The two countries were on the brink of war last year, with their leaders trading insults and threats, until Kim made a dramatic offer in March to meet Trump and discuss nuclear disarmament, which the American president accepted.
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Trump made clear in recent days that he was aiming to advance discussions on a new nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia, but the two presidents emerged without even the promise of specific follow-up meetings on the issue.
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Singapore (CNN)Nearly five hours of unprecedented and surreal talks between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un culminated on Tuesday with fulsome declarations of a new friendship but just vague pledges of nuclear disarmament.
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You need to actually have a goal and you need to give them a reason to work with us, particularly if we want to accomplish things in Syria, in Ukraine, in the war on terror, in nuclear disarmament.
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Bruce Blair, a Princeton specialist on nuclear disarmament who once served as an ICBM launch control officer, says the president would have at most 10 minutes to decide whether to fire America's own land-based ICBMs at Russia.
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North Korea's test of a "guided tactical weapon" on Wednesday might be both a sign of Mr. Kim's frustration and a warning to Washington that there will be no progress on nuclear disarmament unless the sanctions are eased.
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North Korea's test of a "guided tactical weapon" on Thursday might be both a sign of Mr. Kim's frustration and a warning to Washington that there will be no progress on nuclear disarmament unless the sanctions are eased.
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He seemed confident that his deal-making skills could extend to nuclear disarmament, but at times talked about getting other powers — chiefly China and Iran — to deal with North Korea for him, because they would have more leverage.
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The first averted disaster would have been an agreement with Kim Jong-un, nearly reached early this year in Hanoi, that would have traded solid U.S. economic and diplomatic concessions for slippery promises of North Korean nuclear disarmament.
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President Trump's summit meeting in Vietnam with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, disintegrated on Thursday after Kim insisted on a lifting of all economic sanctions against North Korea but would not agree to full nuclear disarmament.
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Since an agreement with the United States collapsed in 2002, negotiations with North Korea on the nuclear issues have gone nowhere, in part because of American demands that the North agree first that the outcome would be nuclear disarmament.
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Image 2 of 2 TOKYO – Nagasaki marked the anniversary of the world&aposs second atomic bombing Thursday with the United Nations&apos chief and the city&aposs mayor urging global leaders to take concrete steps toward world nuclear disarmament.
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He was directly refuting the accusation that his plan for North Korea includes what many wrongly associate with the Libyan nuclear disarmament, and that was in 2011, when Libyans deposed Muammar Gaddafi with the help from the United States.
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Lavrov's comments are likely to be met with frustration in Washington, where efforts are underway to convince North Korea to begin the process of nuclear disarmament ahead of the on-again off-again summit, tentatively scheduled for June 12.
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What will follow — if all goes well — is a long negotiating process where China will support North Korea's demands for iron-clad security guarantees and the dismantling of the sanctions regime in exchange for gradual measures of nuclear disarmament.
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On Monday, President Vladimir Putin suspended a treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons grade plutonium, signaling he is willing to use nuclear disarmament as a new bargaining chip in disputes with the United States over Ukraine and Syria.
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"By clinching the nuclear deal and fulfilling all our commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, we have in action proved our compliance with the principle of non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament," he said, without mentioning Trump directly.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — As he weighs opening nuclear disarmament negotiations with North Korea, President Trump faces a regime that for decades has hidden key elements of its nuclear programs from international monitors and has banned inspectors from the country.
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But the agreement signed on Tuesday lacks any detail on the central issue, denuclearization, raising fears among analysts that once negotiators wade into the specifics, the talks could end in stalemate, as they have after past nuclear disarmament accords.
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Mr. Moon's approach is closer to the so-called Sunshine Policy developed by Roh Moo-hyun, who as president from 2003 to 2008 promoted aid and exchanges with the North in the hopes of guiding it toward nuclear disarmament.
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While there were vague pledges of nuclear disarmament during their historic first meeting in June 2018, a summit in Hanoi in February 2019 ended with no joint agreement after Kim insisted all US sanctions be lifted on his country.
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Jack Weinstein of the Air Force made the remarks against the backdrop of a reassessment by the Trump administration of American nuclear policy, including whether nuclear disarmament, as advocated in 2010 under President Barack Obama, is a realistic goal.
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This shows that the lack of progress on nuclear disarmament by the U.S. and other nuclear-armed states is not the result of technical or legal complications but rather a lack of desire to follow through on their promises.
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The two men, a year apart in age, were extremely close, and President Kennedy consulted with him on every key issue of foreign policy, especially during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and in discussions of Vietnam and nuclear disarmament.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo leaned on a top North Korean official Wednesday for Pyongyang to show plans for nuclear disarmament so that the hyped summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un may go ahead, according to reports.
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Two members of the country's right-leaning political party, Christian Tybring-Gjedde and Per-Willy Amundsen, nominated Trump for the 2019 award because of his efforts to secure the nuclear disarmament of North Korea, according to NRK, Norway's state broadcasting company.
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China is a more complex case because Beijing's difficult trade negotiations with Washington are bound up with hostilities concerning China's maritime borders, arms sales to Taiwan, relations with Tibet and divergent views about peace and nuclear disarmament on the Korean Peninsula.
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Throughout his political career, Corbyn has protested against racism and backed left-wing campaigns such as nuclear disarmament, and was considered the long shot in the party's leadership contest — bookmakers initially put the chance of him winning at 22018 to 285.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department on Thursday denied that the United States had softened its approach toward North Korea's denuclearization, as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heads to Pyongyang hoping to hammer out a roadmap for its nuclear disarmament.
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He was an early supporter of gender equality, backed what became one of the highest tax rates among industrialized countries, and supported both nuclear disarmament and the use of nuclear power as a way to diminish dependence on fossil fuels.
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Global cooperation has been stuck during Moller's six years as head of the U.N. in Geneva, the center of humanitarian work and human rights, with gridlock in the U.N. Security Council and stalemate in talks ranging from nuclear disarmament to trade.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday suspended a treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium, signalling he is willing to use nuclear disarmament as a new bargaining chip in disputes with the United States over Ukraine and Syria.
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"We oppose any country's attempt to make an issue out of China on arms control and will not participate in any negotiation for a trilateral nuclear disarmament agreement," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said during a press briefing in May.
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That suggested that any lasting benefit to Trump on the world stage or at home will depend on whether, in the next stages of negotiations, he can turn the summit's made-for-TV script into tangible progress toward Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.
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The country warned that it may cancel the talks in light of military drills between the U.S. and South Korea, as well as remarks from national security adviser John Bolton referring to the "Libya model" of nuclear disarmament for Pyongyang.
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He should tell the world that his visit to Hiroshima confirms his belief that nuclear weapons are a threat to humanity, and the U.S., the only nation to use nukes against another nation, must provide the leadership to achieve nuclear disarmament.
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"China opposes any country talking out of turn about China on the issue of arms control, and will not take part in any trilateral negotiations on a nuclear disarmament agreement," Geng said when asked about Trump's comments, according to Reuters.
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - A small chain of Pacific islands - some of which were once vapourised by atomic bomb tests - sought in court on Monday to force India, the world's second-most populous country, to get on board with nuclear disarmament.
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The first indication the summit could be in jeopardy came last week, when North Korea scrapped high-level talks with the South and threatened to walk away from negotiations with Trump if the U.S. continued to demand "unilateral" nuclear disarmament.
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Tsukishita wants Obama, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in part for his push for nuclear disarmament, to use his influence to persuade leaders of other nuclear-armed countries to visit Hiroshima too, so they understand the inhumanity of atomic weapons.
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The appeal came at the start of a two-day conference on nuclear disarmament that has brought together 11 Nobel Peace Prize winners, as well as United Nations and NATO officials, discussing prospects for a world free of nuclear weapons.
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Beatrice Fihn, executive director at the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons — a civil society coalition that was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize — said on Twitter the agreement is flawed because Kim did not explicitly agree to nuclear disarmament.
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In the interview, Mr. Bolton said the United States would now consult with allies in Europe, who have opposed the withdrawal from the treaty, considered a cornerstone of the nuclear disarmament agreements reached in the final months of the Soviet Union.
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From the US' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and the Iran nuclear deal, to the deadlock at nuclear disarmament talks and division at the UN Security Council -- our mechanisms for collaboration are being undermined when we need them the most.
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In her statement on Thursday, Ms. Choe accused Mr. Pence, another North Korea hard-liner in the Trump administration, of promoting a "military option" on North Korea and also pushing for a quick and unilateral nuclear disarmament of the country.
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It was far from clear that the additional penalties would accomplish what the Trump administration said was its goal: To force North Korea to halt its nuclear and ballistic missile tests and reopen some kind of negotiation toward eventual nuclear disarmament.
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The last time the liberals were in power, from 1998 to 2008, they pushed the so-called Sunshine Policy of promoting aid and exchanges with North Korea in the hopes of building trust and guiding it toward openness and nuclear disarmament.
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Jane Perlez, The New York Times bureau chief in Beijing, sat down with Mr. Thae ahead of this week's summit meeting with Mr. Kim and President Trump in Hanoi, Vietnam, at which the leaders are expected to discuss nuclear disarmament.
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But he also took an apparent swipe at American foreign policy, suggesting that any military action taken by the United States against other nations complicated efforts to persuade North Korea to accept a security guarantee in exchange for nuclear disarmament.
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Mr. Kim's remarks came a day after Mr. Trump said he was open to the idea of meeting Mr. Kim again, though their second round of talks, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in late February, abruptly ended without a nuclear disarmament deal.
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In that context, North Korea's test of a "guided tactical weapon" on Thursday might be both a sign of his frustration and a warning to Washington that there will be no progress on nuclear disarmament unless the sanctions are eased.
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In the lead up to the summit, North Korea rejected any unilateral nuclear disarmament, and KCNA's reference to denuclearization of the peninsula has historically meant it wants the United States to remove its "nuclear umbrella" protecting South Korea and Japan.
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Talks of nuclear disarmament and discussions of a treaty with South Korea may make it look like North Korea is interested in gaining acceptance from the rest of the world, but attacks like this reveal it is as brutal and vindictive as ever.
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Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit the site of the U.S. atomic bomb attack in Hiroshima, Japan, the White House said Tuesday, a charged final-year stop meant to advance his goal of nuclear disarmament.
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The announcement Thursday by the South&aposs Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean issues for Seoul, comes amid attempts by Washington and Pyongyang to follow through on nuclear disarmament vows made at a summit in June between President Donald Trump and Kim.
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There were, after all, reasons to be hopeful: Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin had held productive talks on nuclear disarmament, the Iran deal was celebrated as a step towards nonproliferation, and stockpiles in general seemed at last poised to diminish rather than grow.
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Sentiment was buoyed by developments on the Korean Peninsula, but "the devil is in the details (or nuclear disarmament) and economic impact may be slow to follow," Vishnu Varathan, head of economics and strategy and Mizuho Bank, said in a morning note.
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Just before Monday's announcement, Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended a treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium, signaling he was willing to use nuclear disarmament as a new bargaining chip in disputes with the United States over Ukraine and Syria.
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Just as President Ronald Reagan launched the Strategic Defense Initiative while negotiating nuclear disarmament deals with his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev, President Trump and his team need to remember that one can deal with dictators in one way only: peace through strength.
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This is not to disparage the efforts of ICAN, which has done about as much as any other organization could do in the perennially stagnant arena of international nuclear disarmament policy, and has done it without also making the world a worse place.
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His father had used the promise of nuclear disarmament as a bargaining chip for aid, and in February 228, young Kim started in his father's footsteps, promising to freeze North Korea's nuclear program in return for food aid from the United States.
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Mr. Moon has met Mr. Kim three times since April, helping broker Mr. Kim's summit meeting with Mr. Trump earlier this year, and has been urging them to meet again to help break a logjam in nuclear disarmament talks between their governments.
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia made a public show of support for North Korea on nuclear disarmament, seeming to undermine President Trump's approach to nuclear diplomacy, as Mr. Putin and Kim Jong-un on Thursday wrapped up their first summit meeting.
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Nuclear disarmament will occur not through the caprice of an egocentric president, but through a renewed grass-roots global movement to halt a gratuitous nuclear arms race and to rid the Earth of nuclear weapons before we suffer an actual nuclear catastrophe.
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The three-page paper, to be considered by Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, the pro-business Free Democrats and the Greens later Friday, mapped out broad agreement on ridding the world of nuclear weapons and vowed a new diplomatic push for nuclear disarmament.
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Financial markets have been resilient this year, even as Trump engages in an at times tense back-and-forth with North Korea over nuclear disarmament and faces pressure after his former personal lawyer named him as a co-conspirator in financial crimes.
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"News that President Trump walked out of the meeting with Supreme Leader Kim, because the two sides couldn't reach an agreement over North Korea's nuclear disarmament, dashed hopes for an easing in geopolitical tensions," analysts at ANZ said in a morning note.
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She often met with Mr. Arias in her nuclear disarmament work, and said she was at his home in late 2014 when he came up behind her, touched her breasts and shoved his hands up her skirt, penetrating her with his fingers.
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North Korea's diplomatic relationship with the US has been chilly as well since February when Trump walked out of nuclear disarmament talks in Hanoi, Vietnam, with Kim Jong Un. No further negotiations around the surrender of Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal are planned at this time.
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In fact, according to multiple reports, it seems the North Koreans are adding to their nuclear and missile capabilities – a truly disturbing turn of events that seems to underscore what many have always feared: Kim Jong Un is striving for nuclear acceptance, not nuclear disarmament.
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WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States appears to have shelved an "all or nothing" approach to North Korean denuclearization as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo prepares to head back to North Korea this week hoping to agree a roadmap for its nuclear disarmament.
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Historically, Western countries have been at the forefront of the nuclear disarmament initiative but currently, many governments prefer to enjoy the protection of the U.S. nuclear umbrella, John Park, director of the Korea Working Group at the Belfer Center, Harvard University, told CNBC on Monday.
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While administration officials, including Pompeo, say the so-called "Libya model" refers to their desire to achieve a quick nuclear disarmament akin to what was reached with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in the early 2000s, the administration's critics say it's a counterproductive specter to raise.
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The Trump administration — which canceled two large-scale spring war games between the United States and South Korea in an effort to move along nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea — is now grappling with reports that Pyongyang is preparing to launch a missile soon.
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Russia and the United States last signed a nuclear disarmament accord in 2009, when both sides agreed to a new limit on delivery vehicles such as bombers or cruise missiles of 500 to 1,100, and a limit on deployed warheads as low as 1,500.
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" Russia issued a statement saying "the emergence of a Treaty for the prohibition of nuclear weapons will not change reality in the field of strategic stability that mandates us to exercise utmost caution and responsibility with our evaluations of the future of nuclear disarmament.
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The expiration of the New START accord also may undermine faith in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which calls on nuclear states such as the United States and Russia to work toward nuclear disarmament, as well as influence China's nuclear posture, historically one of restraint.
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Mr. Trump, in spite of the advice of some of his top aides, has banked on the notion that his personal rapport with Mr. Kim, one of the world's most brutal dictators, can get him a nuclear disarmament deal that has eluded past presidents.
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Mr. Trump expressed his support for humanitarian aid for North Korea when he and Mr. Moon talked on the phone on Tuesday night to discuss how to bring the North back to the negotiating table for nuclear disarmament, Mr. Moon's office said in a statement.
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Nuclear disarmament has been a key theme of the pope's trip to Japan, a country not only haunted by the memory of the two attacks that ended World War Two but also alarmed by the nuclear program and missile tests of nearby North Korea.
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These steps are critical if the two sides, as General Vincent Brooks, the former commander of US forces in Korea, explained, hope to turn the page on 70 years of mutual distrust and lay a foundation for more progress toward North Korean nuclear disarmament.
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If confirmed, Mr. Lee said, the use of VX nerve agent by North Korea will very likely weaken the Trump administration's appetite for reopening nuclear disarmament talks, especially after its recent test of what it called a new type of intermediate-range ballistic missile.
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"He stressed that under such condition, there is no ground for us to get unilaterally bound to the commitment any longer, the commitment to which there is no opposite party, and this is chilling our efforts for worldwide nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation," KCNA reported.
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South Korea's defense minister, Song Young-moo, said he recognized there was debate about the extent of the nuclear disarmament that Kim should be made to agree to, but if the focus was on disagreement and not on the way forward, dialogue would never make progress.
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Under the NPT, one of the world's most important foundational nuclear treaties, nuclear-weapon states -- the US, Russia, China, France and the UK -- commit to ending the arms race and achieving nuclear disarmament, while non-nuclear-weapons states agree to forgo developing or seeking nuclear weapons.
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But if the US and Russia abandon an agreement designed to reduce their nuclear stockpiles, it will become far more difficult to make non-nuclear states stick to their commitments, according to Tytti Erästö, a researcher for the SIPRI Nuclear Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation Programme.
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President Obama should tell the world that he has not forgotten the promise he made in his Prague speech to work for global nuclear disarmament, and his first step will be to veto the $1 trillion he previously approved to modernize the U.S. nuclear weapons programs.
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Washington (CNN)White House national security adviser John Bolton offered up new details on Sunday about the path toward the nuclear disarmament of North Korea and addressed a recent Washington Post report suggesting that the country plans to deceive the United States about its nuclear stockpile.
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What we need now is healthy skepticism about nuclear weapons and the policies which guide their use, and strong citizen engagement in pressuring the nuclear-armed countries to participate in good faith negotiations for total nuclear disarmament, as they are obligated to do under international law.
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At a televised news conference in Seoul, Mr. Chung said Mr. Kim had voiced frustration that his commitment to nuclear disarmament, which he expressed when he met with Mr. Moon in April and with Mr. Trump in June, was not taken seriously by much of the world.
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After National Security Adviser John Bolton said last week that the US would seek complete and total North Korean nuclear disarmament, North Korea said publicly that it would never accept such an outcome — and threatened to pull out of the meeting if Washington didn't adjust its expectations.
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Nothing embodies this better than the devolution of the "peace" symbol: Born as the logo of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, a group that organized mass sit-ins in downtown London, it is now hippie marketing shorthand used to sell hazy nostalgia for a nonpolitical counterculture.
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"For them, 'getting rich' is a secondary consideration," said William Perry, the former secretary of defense and one of the last people to negotiate with the North over peace treaties, nuclear disarmament and missiles — in 1999, when he was sent out as President Bill Clinton's special envoy.
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The two leaders have habitually discussed the urgent need to improve bilateral ties, something that appeared more difficult than was expected when President Trump was elected, as well as an array of international issues, from nuclear disarmament in North Korea to conflict resolution in Syria and Ukraine.
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From New York to Singapore, Scrambling to Pull Off Trump-Kim Summit North Korea Nuclear Disarmament Could Take 15 Years, Expert Warns Mr. Trump again attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions, posting on Twitter that he wished he had selected another lawyer to lead the Justice Department.
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In his remarks, the Russian minister of foreign affairs, Sergey V. Lavrov, presented a picture of the wobbly state of the whole architecture of American and Russian nuclear disarmament that had been erected over the past 50 years, beginning with the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972.
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HANOI, Vietnam — The United States and North Korea offered conflicting accounts and traded blame on Thursday after a second summit meeting between President Trump and the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, ended abruptly without any agreement on nuclear disarmament or easing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
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The diplomatic cables included numerous revelations regarding criticizing the host countries of various U.S. embassies, political maneuverings regarding climate change, discussions about ongoing tension in the Middle East, efforts to further nuclear disarmament, actions in the war on terror, and assessments of other threats around the world.
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North Korea also reportedly rejected Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoCotton warns China: Crackdown on Hong Kong would be 'grave miscalculation' Pompeo expresses concern over North Korea missile tests Pompeo acknowledges 'places where ISIS is more powerful today' MORE's proposed timeline for nuclear disarmament on Wednesday.
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South Korea's official line is that it shares the United State's goal of complete nuclear disarmament, but President Moon Jae-in has told lawmakers he recognizes that may not happen right away and he is open to exploring "other steps along the way," according to a parliamentary official.
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Despite the focus of the U.S. and North Korea on nuclear disarmament issues, other regional actors, particularly South Korea, will need to be involved because they have their unique relationships with North Korea that will play a role in the North Korean final decision making on its nuclear arsenal.
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The Wall Street Journal added that Chinese leadership is urging a "phased approach" in which North Korean concessions are met by lessened international sanctions, while U.S. negotiators are still insisting that nuclear disarmament needs to happen first:Footage shown by Chinese state television highlighted the message of close ties.
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Being representative of the apex authority on nuclear weapons, Parrikar's comments have developed considerable amount of interest Achin Vanaik, a distinguished scholar and one of the founders of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace strongly criticized defense minister's remarks saying that Parrikar's comments can't be taken lightly.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday abruptly called off a trip to North Korea by his secretary of state, citing a lack of progress in nuclear disarmament talks and acknowledging for the first time that his diplomatic overture to the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, had run into trouble.
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Mr. Bolton, who was in Moscow to discuss United States plans to withdraw from a nuclear disarmament treaty, told the Echo of Moscow radio station that election meddling came up during his meetings with senior officials, including the Russian foreign minister and the chief of the country's security council.
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After the Olympics, inter-Korean ties could become frosty again because the North has made it clear it has no intention of accepting international calls for nuclear disarmament and instead wants to bolster its weapons arsenal in the face of what it considers increasing U.S. threats, analysts say.
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And he has taken to venting about Mr. Kelly to an array of friends and supporters, while expressing confidence that recent successes — such as the continued strength of the economy and progress toward nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea — are proof that he is his own best adviser.
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Mr. Kim's flattery of Mr. Trump with beguiling letters and episodic meetings offering vague assurances of eventual nuclear disarmament, some outside experts say, are part of what they call the North Korean leader's strategy of buying time to improve his arsenal despite all the sanctions on North Korea.
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However, Trump has toned down his comments about North Korea as he pursues nuclear disarmament talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong UnKim Jong UnChina is the United States's North Korea problem Pope appeals to world leaders to renounce nuclear weapons Trump must hang tough on North Korea MORE.
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But adding to a sense that the broader architecture of nuclear disarmament has started to unravel, Mr. Putin also said that Russia would build weapons previously banned under the treaty and would no longer initiate talks with the United States on any matters related to nuclear arms control.
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If Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump meet again, they will try to forge a deal on what actions North Korea must take toward denuclearization in order to encourage Washington to ease sanctions and what corresponding measures the United States must offer to expedite the North's nuclear disarmament, he said.
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" Bolton, who was called out by name by the North for saying that the U.S. is seeking an outcome similar to Libya&aposs unilateral nuclear disarmament, said the personal attack raised the question of "whether this really is a sign that that they&aposre not taking our objective of denuclearization seriously.
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The scientists also encouraged people to demand their governments reenergize the nuclear disarmament process, engage with reclusive North Korea to reduce its nuclear risk, follow up on the Paris accord to end climate change, deal with commercial nuclear waste programs and create institutions to explore catastrophic use of new technologies.
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In the fog of Russiagate, Kim Jong Un's volte-face on nuclear disarmament, trade wars with China and half the world, as well as Palestinian violence, suddenly all 28-member states of the European Union have remarkably adopted a unified stance against the one man calculated to unite: Donald Trump.
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From Sara Nelson, international president, Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, Washington, D.C. US must lead nuclear disarmament Throughout my time as a student at American University, I have become deeply passionate about human rights, as well as the 15,000 nuclear weapons in the world today that put every person at risk.
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North Korea appeared to catch U.S. officials off guard last week when it warned that it may cancel the talks in light of military drills between the U.S. and South Korea, as well as remarks from national security adviser John Bolton referring to the "Libya model" of nuclear disarmament for Pyongyang.
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If the end of our policy is "complete, verifiable and irreversible nuclear disarmament," the means we have chosen not only fails to get us there, they will raise the risk of permanent tension under much more lethal circumstances and harden the political stalemate which it is in our interest to overcome.
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If he fails in nuclear disarmament process with Kim Jong Un and agrees to something like partially destroying North Korea's nuclear capability while allowing North Korea to keep its capability to attack with nuclear weapons, then I think North Korea would be easily accepted as a nuclear state in this region.
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President Trump and Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, cut short their summit meeting today in Hanoi, Vietnam, after the two sides failed to agree on even the first steps for nuclear disarmament, a peace declaration for the Korean War or a reduction in sanctions on the North.
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MOSCOW — Two months after a failed summit meeting with President Trump, North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, met on Thursday with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, as Mr. Kim tries to rally international support for an approach to sanctions relief and gradual nuclear disarmament that the Trump administration opposes.
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But despite a virtual blackout in the mainstream media, Russia and China have been arguing for years in the halls of the United Nations that the world needs a treaty to prevent stationing such weapons in outer space in order to maintain global "strategic stability" among the major powers and enable nuclear disarmament.
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President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un met for nearly five hours this morning, emerged to say nice things about each other and then signed a document that made vague pledges of nuclear disarmament from North Korea and a promise from the US to "provide security guarantees" to the reclusive nation.
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In the end, however, Ms. Duke found contentment in an enduring fourth marriage; the presidency of the Screen Actors Guild; the proper diagnosis and treatment of her bipolar disorder; her public lobbying for causes including mental health, AIDS awareness and nuclear disarmament; and a renewed television career that brought her three Emmys.
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Humphrey gave Johnson the opportunity to change the course of history: By pulling out of Vietnam, he could have avoided opposition from his own party and seeing his vision for the Great Society jeopardized by a foreign war and his aspirations for nuclear disarmament between the Soviet Union and the United States thwarted.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Thursday that he would be open to a third summit meeting with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, suggesting he is keen to revive a high-stakes engagement that was abruptly suspended six weeks ago after the two leaders failed to strike a nuclear disarmament deal in Vietnam.
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It would have to be followed by what experts call the most extensive inspection campaign in the history of nuclear disarmament, one that would have to delve into a program that stretches back more than half a century and now covers square miles of industrial sites and hidden tunnels across the mountainous North.
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Even more importantly, although some senior US government officials are continuing to advocate rapid and complete North Korean nuclear disarmament before the United States offers any concessions, the administration appears to have embraced what US negotiator Stephen Biegun has referred to as a more reasonable process of incremental, step-by-step diplomacy.
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In an interview with VICE News published this week, Victor Cha, a US representative in six-nation nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea in 2005 and former director for Asian affairs on the National Security Council, said he believes it is now too late to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear arms.
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The White House announced Thursday morning that it is canceling the planned summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in light of statements from the North Korean government that make it clear that Pyongyang is not, in fact, going to make the kind of nuclear disarmament promises that the United States was expecting.
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America already achieved the latter — and with a much more dangerous foe: During the Cold War, President Ronald Reagan and then-Secretary of State George Shultz, rather than decoupling human rights from the nuclear arms race, used the issue of freedom for Soviet Jewry as the litmus test for Soviet intentions on nuclear disarmament.
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In the space of a few hours, President Trump on Tuesday took credit for averting a war with North Korea, charged without proof that President Barack Obama had secretly granted citizenship to thousands of Iranians as part of nuclear disarmament negotiations and appeared to suggest that customers of the motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson were psychic.
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The too-good-to-be-true bromance between North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and the Trump administration hit some snags this week, as the North Koreans clarified that their position remains irreconcilably opposed to US demands for complete verifiable nuclear disarmament and the Trump administration was shown to still have no real way of achieving its policy aims.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un understands that "there will be in-depth verification" of nuclear commitments in any deal with the U.S. Pompeo is pushing back on criticism that the joint agreement signed by Kim and President Donald Trump includes no mention of verifying North Korean nuclear disarmament.
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I was 12 years younger than him, but I can remember how energetic and committed he was to being an activist as well as an artist: In 1982, a few months before he had his first solo show at Tony Shafrazi's gallery, he went to a nuclear disarmament rally in Central Park and distributed 20,000 posters.
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A look at who the officials are and how their comments led Trump to spike the summit planned for June 12 in Singapore: ___ KIM KYE GWAN First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan, 75, led the North Korean delegation at much of the off-and-on six-nation nuclear disarmament talks held in Beijing in 2003-2008.
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Thoroughly radicalized by her challenge to Columbia's expansion plans in Harlem and Morningside Heights, Ms. Runyon later campaigned against American involvement in Vietnam, supported the Black Panthers and nuclear disarmament, and continued to get arrested for civil disobedience into her 90s as an indomitable leader of the Granny Peace Brigade, which protested the war in Iraq.
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He distributed leaflets and pamphlets promoting nuclear disarmament that were among the first to popularize the universal symbol of the peace movement, the circular logo designed by the British artist Gerald Holtom using semaphore signals for N and D. Mr. Sharp later studied at the University of Oslo and at Oxford, where he earned a doctorate in 1968.
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" After Trump previously suggested that China wanted to participate in a trilateral deal with the US and Russia, a spokesperson for the Chinese government said in May 2019: "We oppose any country's attempt to make an issue out of China on arms control and will not participate in any negotiation for a trilateral nuclear disarmament agreement.
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WASHINGTON — For the White House, these have been dramatic days for nuclear disarmament: First President Trump exited the Iran deal, demanding that Tehran sign a new agreement that forever cuts off its path to making a bomb, then the administration announced a first-ever meeting with the leader of North Korea about ridding his nation of nuclear weapons.
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The Labour leader from 240 to 21992, Michael Foot, was far to the left of its past few leaders and adopted an unapologetically socialist platform, calling for unilateral nuclear disarmament, renationalizing major industries like British Telecom, and withdrawing from the European Economic Community, which the hard left viewed as a plot by European elites to undermine regulations and the welfare state.
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The Pentagon announced last month that it was indefinitely suspending the Freedom Guardian military exercise in support of the Singapore summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump repeatedly touted the cost savings that would come with his decision to stop "the war games," in a surprise concession to Kim at the June 12 summit to discuss Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.
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While nuclear disarmament is expected to be the focus of the upcoming summit between the United States and North Korea on June 12 in Singapore, there is another significantly dangerous issue that should also have a place in the negotiations: the violation of nearly the full spectrum of human rights of the 85033 million North Korean people by the government in Pyongyang.
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The Pentagon announced last month that it was indefinitely suspending the Freedom Guardian military exercise in support of the Singapore summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump repeatedly touted the cost savings that would come with his decision to stop "the war games," in a surprise concession to Kim at the June 12 summit to discuss Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.
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Instead, Mr. Trump talked about his accomplishments — including the surging economy; the decisions to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and to pursue nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea; and the opening of the United States Embassy in Jerusalem, which he said had saved American taxpayers a substantial amount of money — and about his optimism over Republicans' chances in the fall midterm elections.
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Mr. Bolton stumbled early in his tenure when he almost derailed a summit meeting between Mr. Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, by suggesting that Libya would be a good model for nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea (the Libyan leader, Muammar el-Qaddafi, was ousted and killed a decade after he agreed to give up his weapons).
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In a second statement, Pyongyang said the U.S. must drop its demand for "unilateral" nuclear disarmament and blasted national security adviser John Bolton's suggestion of a "Libya model," referring to a denuclearization agreement the North African country entered into with the U.S. The Kim government sees the reference as a threat since Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was ousted from power and killed eight years later.
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Critical issues at the summit The administration will sell the Helsinki meeting as a chance to pursue common interests as the President seeks to negotiate nuclear disarmament on the Korean peninsula and tries to get Moscow's assurances that forces of its ally, President Bashar al-Assad will not target US-backed rebels in Syria, as part of his plan for getting US troops home.
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Frustrated with the failure of nuclear weapons states to fulfill their obligations under Article 6 of the NPT, in which "all Parties undertake to pursue good-faith negotiations on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race, to nuclear disarmament, and to general and complete disarmament," a group of non-nuclear nations spearheaded the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in 2017.
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Mr. Jaffe incontrovertibly establishes New York as "the capital city of social activism" by recounting a litany of provocative flash points, including the Flushing Remonstrance, the Zenger trial, the Stamp Act, slavery, immigration, slums, pay and safety standards for factory workers, women's suffrage, the Red Scare, Prohibition, the Cold War, school integration, civil rights, nuclear disarmament, feminism, gay rights, Occupy Wall Street and racial profiling by law enforcement.
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Hours later and some 6,800 miles away in Pyongyang, Russia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov met with Kim Jong Un, before holding talks with his counterpart Ri Yong Ho. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo leaned on a top North Korean official Wednesday for Pyongyang to show plans for nuclear disarmament so that the hyped summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un may go ahead, according to reports.
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The North said it wasn't going to be pushed into nuclear disarmament by the US. This comes after the regime suddenly suspended high level-talks with South Korea because the South is currently conducting military drills with the US. This sudden step backward is stunning after Kim's well-received meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in a few weeks ago, in which the two leaders vowed to officially end the Korean War.
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While I applaud and fully support the efforts of high school students to bring about meaningful gun control in this violence-addicted country, I also reflect on the fact that — having been born in 1944 — I have witnessed members of my generation energize the civil rights struggle, bring an end to the Vietnam War, create the feminist revolution, make important strides toward nuclear disarmament and environmental protection, and help elect this country's first black president.
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Article of the Day Before reading the article: Read the two paragraphs below, from the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs website: The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.
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But you'll also find some truly bad ideas, such as cutting military spending by 50 percent and closing over 700 foreign military bases; cutting U.S. financial and military support to Israel because, according to the platform, it is a "human rights abuser"; unilateral nuclear disarmament; labeling genetically modified organisms, an idea that both scientists and economists oppose since it would wrongfully scare people, cause economic damage and possibly lead to a rise in food prices; and banning the use of drones.
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But the new U.S. penalties appear to seek to stem those changes, punishing North Korea's economic benefactors as talks are uncertain on cementing a nuclear disarmament deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "Treasury will continue to implement existing sanctions on North Korea, and will take action to block and designate companies, ports, and vessels that facilitate illicit shipments and provide revenue streams to the DPRK," Treasury Secretary Steven MnuchinSteven Terner MnuchinFive key players in Trump's trade battles Pelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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