Gareth Evans has warned signing up to the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons will “tear up” the United States alliance ahead of a critical contested vote in an otherwise tranquil Labor conference. The former foreign affairs minister m...
Donald Trump has declared there is “no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea”, a dubious claim following his summit with leader Kim Jong-un that produced no guarantees on how or when Pyongyang would disarm. Tempering Trump’s very upbeat assessmen...
Everybody seems to concur that the agreement between the North Korean leader and Trump is going to let the US disengage militarily from the peninsula (US military exercises halted in bid to woo Kim, 13 June). Trump himself is very happy that this wi...
North Korea has hailed Tuesday’s summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un as marking the end to hostile relations with the US, with state media depicting the meeting as a diplomatic victory for its leader. Trump offered his own assessment as he l...
The wording of the document signed by Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un on Tuesday falls some way short of the dramatic billing the president gave it at the end of the leaders’ historic summit in Singapore. Trump described it as a “very comprehensive” ag...
North Korea Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un showed respect for each other from the moment they met at the Capella hotel Donald Trump has met the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, in a highly choreographed setting in Singapore. Here are five thi...
Donald Trump on Saturday said his summit with Kim Jong-un in Singapore would be a “one-time shot”. Speaking to reporters at the G7 summit in La Malbaie, Canada, the US president projected confidence over the prospects for a deal on denuclearization,...
Singapore is a city that has been described as having all the atmosphere of an airport terminal or a large shopping mall. Dirt and chaos are not welcome here, be it in the form of litter, chewing gum, graffiti or political protest. Cross the road aw...
Donald Trump says the summit with Kim Jong-un will go ahead in Singapore on 12 June as planned, marking the start of negotiations between the US and North Korea. The US president seems to have accepted the North Korean position that denuclearisation...
Explosives are rigged inside one of the tunnels at the Punggye-ri site. The test site consists of four main tunnels beneath mountains in the north-east, according to analysis by the monitoring group 38 North. Photograph: AP Facebook Twitter Pint...
Kim Jong-un makes good on his promise to close his country's only known nuclear test site, detonating explosives and collapsing its entrances in front of international television crews in a highly symbolic move • North Korea 'destroys' Punggye-ri te...
The short, turbulent history of the Trump-Kim summit, from its surprise announcement in March to its abrupt cancellation on Thursday, is the chronicle of a trainwreck foretold. The debacle had been predicted by just about anyone with an experience o...
If the reports are true, it was the heist of the century. Israeli spies are said to have broken into a secret Tehran warehouse in January, stolen a half-tonne of documents and somehow spirited them back to Israel the same night. That version of even...
The coming month will see the two strands of Donald Trump’s nuclear diplomacy – with Iran and North Korea – intertwine in ways that are hard to predict. Trump is threatening to abrogate the 2015 multilateral nuclear agreement with Iran by refusing t...
Rockets, satellites, missiles and atoms pepper the landscape in Pyongyang. They are the anchors of funfair rides, feature in extravagant floral tributes to the country’s “dear” and “supreme” leaders from the Kim dynasty, and appear on stamps, apartm...