Sentences with phrase «in nuclear tensions»

President Donald Trump said he was prepared to meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un in what would be the first face - to - face encounter between the two countries» leaders and potentially mark a major breakthrough in nuclear tensions with Pyongyang.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was prepared to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the first U.S. - North Korea summit, marking a potentially dramatic breakthrough in nuclear tensions with Pyongyang.

March 9 (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was prepared to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the first U.S. - North Korea summit, marking a potentially dramatic breakthrough in nuclear tensions with Pyongyang.

Not exact matches

There may be a «lull» in the tensions over North Korea's nuclear program, but leader Kim Jong Un is merely playing for time, says Eurasia Group's Meredith Sumpter.

Citing a website called EurActiv, the story cautions, «The movement of the United States to bring nuclear weapons in Romania could create new tensions with Russia.»

North Korea's decision to participate in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang was considered a symbolic breakthrough amid rising nuclear tensions and a war that never officially ended.

Tensions have escalated since North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on September 3, but the rhetoric has reached a new level in recent days with leaders on both sides exchanging threats and insults.

Tensions in the Korean peninsula have amped up recently, with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un continuing to test nuclear weapons — thought to be capable of reaching U.S. soil — despite United Nations sanctions.

Tensions in the region have been high since January when North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test and then followed that with a satellite launch and test launches of various missiles.

Jones said this isn't the first time in recent months that jitters over growing nuclear tensions have boosted sales of the drug, which comes in tablet and liquid form and should be taken within hours of exposure to radiation.

After months of missile and nuclear tests that raised tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Kim suddenly extended an olive branch, saying in his New Year's address on Jan. 1 that he would prepare for his country's participation in the Feb. 9 - 25 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics hosted by South Korea.

(CNN)- As Jews gathered together at sundown Wednesday to break the Yom Kippur fast, in some homes it wasn't just food that was being shared, but also opinion on the rising tension between the leaders of the United States and Israel over the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program.

The second profound social change is that we are now living in a nuclear age compounded by increasing international tensions, violence, terrorism, and the stockpiling of nuclear weapons.

Citing current tension from the North Korean administration, Reiss - Andersen added: «We live in a world where the risk of nuclear weapons being used is greater than it has been for a long time.»

«We live in a world of tension and it is becoming abundantly clear that nuclear weapons do not make us safer but are themselves a source of fear and dispute.»

But nuclear proliferation would in turn alarm China, which for years has advocated a de-escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula.

One could also argue that the US would try to avoid using nuclear weapons against North Korea in the case of a retaliation attack in order to prevent larger tensions with Beijing and more risks to South Korea.

A first nuclear crisis erupted but was temporarily dealt with in the 1990s, but tensions rose again in 2002, when US President George Bush included North Korea in the «Axis of Evil» with Iraq and Iran, as regime which «pursues weapons of mass destruction while starving its citizens.»

The latest information about Kim's detention came amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula, driven by concerns that the North might conduct its sixth nuclear test in defiance of US pressure and UN sanctions.

At a time when there are signs that the new government in Iran is taking some tentative steps towards reducing tensions over its nuclear programme, the cost of military intervention seem to outweigh any potential benefits (of which there are few and far between at best).

In the past it was Michael Foot, nuclear disarmament and the power of the unions that caused all the tension.

Do expect new occupants of the posts of shadow Foreign Secretary and shadow Defence Secretary - in those two areas the tensions over nuclear weapons and military action have proved too much of an embarrassment for Mr Corbyn.

While the Cold War has receded, arms control remains a global priority, driven by fears of terrorism, nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea, and creeping tensions between the United States and Russia.

Although the visit came at a time of tension centered on Iran's disputed nuclear research and tightening Western economic sanctions, the presentations and meetings focused on shared interests in research and building a dialogue based on science.

The world is closer to nuclear annihilation than at any point since the first hydrogen bombs were tested in the early 1950s, says a group of scientists who monitor global tensions.

In 1990, as tensions built toward war between the United States and Iraq, Sagan publicly stated that if Iraq lit its oilfields afire, the resulting petrochemical smoke might trigger a miniature but still disastrous nuclear winter effect.

Meanwhile, a group of neo-Nazi terrorists have obtained a nuclear warhead, thought lost in a failed Israeli mission in 1973, and will use it to escalate the tension between the two superpowers into a full - out nuclear war.

The second is impossible to miss — a nuclear bomb detonation in near - future London — and while the film delivers a dystopian teen romance in the center of its aftermath, an unnerving atmosphere and surprising brutality actually creates tangible jeopardy and tension throughout.

The seated figure in Selfie wears a gas mask, evoking Cold War tensions and nuclear paranoia — a psycho - political state of anxiety which has a contemporary relevance due to current political developments.

Nationalism, war, protectionism, economic volatility, the mass displacement of populations, the threat of nuclear conflict, civil rights, identity politics, fascism, revolutions in communications, Russia vs. the USA, upheavals in South America, tensions in Asia and the Middle East.

One board member, Sharon Squassoni, of George Washington University's Institute for International Science and Technology Policy, said Russia was also responsible for raising tensions, for example by deploying ground - launched cruise missiles in 2017 in breach of the 1987 Intermediate - range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty.

Jayantha Dhanapala, member of the BAS Board of Sponsors, former United Nations under - secretary - general for Disarmament Affairs and ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United States, adds, «Despite the promise of a new spirit of international cooperation, and reductions in tensions between the United States and Russia, the Science and Security Board believes that the path toward a world free of nuclear weapons is not at all clear, and leadership is failing.