Updated on: Nov 20, 2025 09:59 pm IST China is rapidly building up its nuclear weapons stockpiles but has expressed little interest in negotiating with Russia and the US. Russia and China held talks in Moscow this week on missile defence and strategic stability and agreed to strengthen cooperation in those areas, the Russian Foreign…
SEOUL (Reuters) -The permanent mission of North Korea to the United Nations said the country’s position as a nuclear weapons state was irreversible, denouncing U.S. “anachronistic” claims for denuclearisation, state media KCNA reported on Monday. “The position of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as a nuclear weapons state which has been permanently specified in…
China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday it was “neither reasonable nor realistic” for Beijing to join trilateral nuclear disarmament talks reportedly discussed between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Trump told reporters on Monday that Washington and Moscow were discussing ways to reduce their nuclear arsenals, adding that he…