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Byline: Ben Arnoldy Anastacia Kyseleva saw her first atomic mushroom cloud from the fields near her village. Residents of Kanonerka, located near the Russian border in eastern Kazakhstan, had only [...]

Byline: Lowell Schwartz North Korea has captured global attention with its provocative behavior in recent months, the latest being this week's sentencing of US citizen and tour leader Kenneth Bae [...]

Byline: Steven Borowiec Despite ongoing tension on the Korean peninsula and speculation that North Korea would use the occasion to flex its military muscle, North Korea celebrated its biggest holiday [...]

Byline: Howard LaFranchi With the North Korea crisis continuing to spiral to ever-higher tensions, Secretary of State John Kerry faces the first major test of his short tenure as he [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand As Kim Jong-un breathes fire and possibly prepares to test another long-range missile, the North Korean leader's main advantage is that no one knows who he is [...]

Byline: Peter Grier What's going on at North Korea's nuclear test site? The question arises because there's been some confusion in reports Monday from the Korean Peninsula as to whether [...]

Byline: Anna Mulrine The Pentagon played down the news that the head of US Forces Korea has decided to stay in South Korea rather than coming to Washington to testify [...]

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board Since 2005, North Korea has tested three nuclear devices while violating international law with its missile launches. These actions, when linked to its recent high-pitched [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand North Korea held a mass rally Friday with fist-shaking generals promising to 'dismantle and terminate' the nation's enemies in 'any part of the world' to an audience [...]

Byline: Peter Grier Could North Korea hit the United States with a ballistic missile? Could it mount a nuclear warhead on the tip of that missile? The short answers to [...]

Byline: Donald Kirk North Korea leader Kim Jong-il's reported promise to Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev to put a 'moratorium' on nuclear testing should six-party talks resume struck a hollow note [...]

Byline: Donald Kirk South and North Korea's first attempt at a breakthrough in reconciliation in more than four months resulted instead Wednesday in a breakdown in talks, casting serious doubts [...]

Byline: Donald Kirk North Korea appears more likely now to stage another long-range missile test or underground nuclear explosion rather than attacking South Korean targets, according to security experts in [...]

Byline: Peter Ford Despite China's growing impatience with North Korea's provocative actions, Beijing is not likely to exert dramatic pressure on Pyongyang to check its behavior in the immediate future. [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand The new spirit of European austerity reached the French and UK militaries as leaders of the two nations agreed today on joint commands and nuclear testing cooperation. [...]

Byline: Warren Richey The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a challenge by residents of a string of South Pacific islands seeking 'just compensation' for losing their [...]

Byline: Arthur Bright * A daily summary of global reports on security issues. The UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has questioned Tehran about evidence that Iran has [...]

Byline: Tom A. Peter * A daily summary of global reports on security issues . Iran tested two types of missiles and a missile-launching system Sunday, according to the country's [...]

Byline: Peter Grier Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Score one for international sanctions against North Korea. That is the line that US and United Nations officials are taking [...]

Byline: Leif-Eric Easley Los Angeles -- North Korea's provocations are testing more than weapons and diplomacy. Recent actions by the United Nations, South Korea, Japan, and United States, while well [...]

Byline: Simon Montlake Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Bangkok, Thailand -- By tracking a North Korean cargo ship that appears to be headed to military-ruled Burma (Myanmar), the Obama [...]

Byline: Peter Grier Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor The Kang Nam is an aging, rusty cargo ship that has passed through numerous owners. Now flying the flag of [...]

Byline: Donald Kirk Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor President Barack Obama appears to have convinced many South Korean skeptics of the United States' commitment to the defense of South [...]

Byline: Howard LaFranchi Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Washington -- With China and Russia saying Wednesday they are on board, the United Nations Security Council is poised to [...]

Byline: Donald Kirk Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor The sentence of 12 years of hard labor for two American journalists in North Korea opens a new chapter in efforts [...]

Byline: John Hughes Provo, Utah -- North Korea's defiant nuclear test May 25 presents President Obama with a challenging new set of problems on the international scene. The test is [...]

Byline: Arthur Bright * A daily summary of global reports on security issues . The five permanent members of the UN Security Council are close to completing work on new [...]

Byline: Joshua Mitnick Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Tel Aviv -- As the US and Asian neighbors of North Korea mull a united response to block the communist nation's [...]

Byline: Peter Grier Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Washington -- Following its underground nuclear test earlier this week, North Korea may be planning another show of defiance to [...]

Byline: Gordon Lubold Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Washington -- The US is unlikely to use its significant military presence in Asia to counter the rising belligerence from [...]

Byline: Rosalie E. Dunbar News editor for the Christian Science magazines In nearly every story about North Korea's recent tests of missiles and its explosion of a nuclear device, you'll [...]

Byline: Peter Grier and Peter N. Spotts Staff writers of The Christian Science Monitor Washington and Boston -- Where does North Korea's nuclear program go from here? That's a key [...]

Byline: Donald Kirk and Kristen Chick | North Korea has raised the stakes on the Korean peninsula by conducting an underground nuclear weapon test Monday and subsequently test-firing half a [...]

Byline: Howard LaFranchi Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Washington -- North Korea may have gone too far with this week's nuclear blast and missile launch, potentially provoking the [...]

Byline: Donald Kirk Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor South Korea's decision to join the United States and dozens of other nations in a program to block the shipment of [...]

Byline: Peter Grier Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Washington -- North Korea's underground nuclear test Monday may be seen as a major provocation that pushes Pyongyang near the [...]

Byline: Peter Ford Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Beijing -- As North Korea further ratcheted up tensions in Asia Tuesday, launching two more test missiles a day after [...]

Byline: Peter Ford Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Beijing -- North Korea's nuclear test Monday appears to have dashed hopes on both sides of the Pacific that Pyongyang [...]

Byline: Peter Ford Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor BEIJING -- As diplomats gather here for a new round of negotiations aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear program, Pyongyang's [...]

Byline: Mary-Wynne Ashford and Peter Zheutlin If Nobel prizes were awarded for encouraging nuclear proliferation and endangering world security, this year's award would surely have to go to the Republican […]

New research has raised more questions about whether Yucca Mountain - the controversial site slated to accept much of America's nuclear waste - is safe. For decades, environmentalists, scientists, and […]

Byline: Robert Marquand, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Sri Narendra points outside his office to the baking midday streets of Delhi - cows meander, children beg, and men […]

Byline: Farhan Bokhari, Special to The Christian Science Monitor 'It's the call of jihad $(holy war$) to save Pakistan," said cab driver Hakim Khan as he scrawled a slogan on […]

India's recent testing of nuclear weapons triggered an international reaction both swift and negative. Concerns include reigniting the arms race; destabilization in the region, particularly with Pakistan and China; renewed […]

Byline: John Zubrzycki, Special to The Christian Science Monitor As the world awaits Pakistan's reply to last week's underground nuclear tests by India, a dangerous new era of instability is […]