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  • North Korea issued a surprise proposal to the United States, its No. 1 enemy: Let's talk.
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  • Smoke partly covers Kaepoong as the North Koreas town is viewed from the unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, that separates the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 14, 2013. As the world watches to see what North Koreas next move will be in a high-stakes game of brinksmanship with the United States, residents of its capital arent hunkering down in bunkers and preparing for the worst. Instead, they are out on the streets en masse getting ready for the birthday of national founder Kim Il Sung  the biggest holiday of the year. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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  • The United States and Japan on Sunday offered new talks with North Korea to resolve the increasingly dangerous standoff over its nuclear and missile programs, but said the reclusive communist government first must lower tensions and honor previous agreements.
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  • North Korea on Tuesday urged all foreign companies and tourists in South Korea to evacuate, saying the two countries are on the verge of a nuclear war.
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  • The U.N. Security Council responded swiftly to North Korea's latest nuclear test by punishing the reclusive regime Thursday with tough, new sanctions targeting its economy and leadership, despite Pyongyang's threat of a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the United States.
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  • North Koreans attend a rally to support a statement given on Tuesday by a spokesman for the Supreme Command of the Korean Peoples Army vowing to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War as well as boasting of the Norths ownership of lighter and smaller nukes and its ability to execute surgical strikes meant to unify the divided Korean Peninsula, at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, NorthKorea, on Thursday, March 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)
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  • President Barack Obama
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  • President Barack Obama
  • President Barack Obama reacted sharply to North Korea's nuclear test Tuesday, promising swift international action to bring the rogue communist regime in line. The detonation came hours before the American leader's State of the Union address, where he was expected to address U.S. denuclearization plans.
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  • Defying U.N. warnings, North Korea on Tuesday conducted its third nuclear test in the remote, snowy northeast, taking a crucial step toward its goal of building a bomb small enough to be fitted on a missile capable of striking the United States.
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  • North Korea apparently conducted a widely anticipated nuclear test Tuesday.
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  • North Korea says it detains American man
  • South Korean intelligence officials say North Korea is digging a new underground tunnel in what appears to be preparation for a third nuclear test.
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  • North Korea says it detains American man
  • U.S. officials say it's a breakthrough in negotiations with the secretive communist nation
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  • The United States and its European allies joined Friday in saying they would try to pressure Iran back into nuclear negotiations.
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  • South Korea's Yonhap news agency says North Korea has conducted a short-range missile test.
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  • U.S. officials enter day two of talks with North Korea looking for concrete signs the communist nation is willing to take steps to give up its nuclear weapons program.
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  • U.S. officials will use two days of talks to gauge how serious North Korea is about giving up its nuclear weapon program.
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  • The founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program claims that in the late 1990s North Korean officials paid senior Pakistani military figures for critical weapons technology.
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  • New Mexico wildfire
  • Thousands of employees showed up for their first day of work in more than a week after a northern New Mexico wildfire came dangerously close to the nation's premier nuclear weapons laboratory.
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  • Iran nuclear program
  • Israel's minister of strategic affairs said Wednesday that technical difficulties have pushed back the Iranian timetable for producing a nuclear weapon.
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  • The Senate on Wednesday ratified an arms control treaty with Russia that reins in the nuclear weapons that could plunge the world into doomsday, giving President Barack Obama a major foreign policy win in Congress' waning hours.
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  • North Korea
  • North Korea may be moving ahead with a program to enrich uranium to make nuclear weapons.
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  • Iran nuclear program
  • The European Union on Monday formally adopted a package of new sanctions against Iran, targeting the country's foreign trade, banking and energy sectors.
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  • Shahram Amiri
  • An Iranian scientist who disappeared a year ago was on his way home to Tehran on Wednesday from the United States.
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  • Iran nuclear program
  • Iran said in a letter to the European Union that it's ready for talks on the country's nuclear program.
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  • Action News
  • Brazil's foreign minister says his country's active support of Iran in its dispute with the West over its nuclear program is being scaled back after the U.N. Security Council decision to move for a fourth set of sanctions.
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  • Iran nuclear program
  • European Union leaders are set to adopt a new set of sanctions against Iran on Thursday in a further effort to stall its disputed nuclear program.
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  • Mideast Iran Nuclear
  • Iran's president on Wednesday urged Barack Obama to accept a nuclear fuel swap deal, warning the U.S. leader will miss a historic opportunity for improved cooperation from Tehran if the offer is rejected.
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  • Iran nuclear program
  • Iran said Tuesday it expects the U.S. and its allies to accept a nuclear fuel swap deal.
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  • UN Nuclear Treaty
  • The United States has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and "several thousand" more retired warheads awaiting the junkpile, the Pentagon said Monday in an unprecedented accounting of a secretive arsenal born in the Cold War and now shrinking rapidly.
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  • Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday rejected allegations his country is developing nuclear weapons.
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  • President Barack Obama
  • President Barack Obama says the risk of nuclear attack has increased, calling it a "cruel irony" after the end of the Cold War.
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  • Czech Republic Summit US Russia Nuclear
  • Reaching anew for peace, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed a treaty to shrink their nations' nuclear arsenals.
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  • US/Russia arms deal
  • President Barack Obama has overseas travel plans Wednesday.
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  • A U.S. official says a treaty expected to be sealed with Russia within hours would cut by 25 percent the number of deployed nuclear weapons.
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  • The U.S. is taking a go-slow approach on one of the touchiest and least discussed national security issues: whether to remove the last remaining Cold War-era U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe.
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  • Iran nuclear program
  • Iran has issued a formal response effectively rejecting an international proposal.
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  • Iran nuclear program
  • Officials say the United States and five other countries are likely to meet this week to discuss what to do about Iran's nuclear program.
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  • North Korea
  • North Korea proposed concluding a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War this year.
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  • WWII ATOMIC BOMB NAGASAKI
  • Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person officially recognized as a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings at the end of World War II, has died at age 93.
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  • Iran nuclear program
  • Iran is close to clinching a deal to clandestinely import 1,350 tons of purified uranium ore from Kazakhstan
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