An analyst says it is totally unrealistic to expect North Korea to halt its nuclear weapons development program because it is the very existence of these arsenal that prevents US aggression against the country.

The administration of US President Donald Trump says it has no plan to sign the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

The nuclear disarmament group ICAN says that US President Donald Trump's presidency has put a "spotlight" on the risks of nuclear weapons.

Norway has offered to allow Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu and his Norwegian wife to immigrate to and live in the Scandinavian country.

The UN Security Council holds its second emergency meeting in a week about North Korea on Monday after Pyongyang detonated a hydrogen bomb underground.

Martin Schulz, the leader of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), has vowed to remove US nuclear weapons from German territory if he is elected chancellor.

An analyst says US President Donald Trump’s threats against North Korea undercut efforts to try to settle Pyongyang’s nuclear issue in a peaceful way.

An analyst says North Korea is well aware that the only reason it is not invaded and overthrown by the US like Libya and Iraq is its nuclear capability.

Deterrence theory is an inefficient strategy that has repeatedly failed to work in confrontational situations, a political commentator says.

Iran’s IAEA envoy says the Islamic Republic, as a victim of weapons of mass destruction, firmly backs the UN’s adoption of a treaty banning nuclear arms.