North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is believed to have turned 40 on Monday. But state media continued its decades of silence on his birthday. Watch this video to find out why.

Why did North Korea's Kim Jong Un not celebrate his 40th birthday?

Iran has increased the rate at which it is producing near weapons-grade uranium in recent weeks, reversing a previous slowdown that started in the middle of this year, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report to member states.

Iran increases Uranium production, enriched at 60% purity currently | World DNA | WION

Asteroid strikes can spell an end for thriving life on a planet. Just ask dinosaurs. Oh yeah, they are not here anymore. But based on what we've learnt from their broken, mangled sometimes charred remains obtained from their deep geologic graveyards, we know for sure that a space rock travelling at a speed of thousands of kilometres per second cannot exactly bring good tidings when it is resolved to hit Earth head on.

How safe is nuking earth-bound asteroid? Scientists create simulation to answer

North Korea has adopted a constitutional amendment to enshrine its policy on nuclear force. This development comes in the backdrop of North Korea accelerating its advancement of nuclear and missile arsenal.

North Korea adopts constitutional amendment, Kim Jong-Un calls for modernising nukes | World DNA

- Ukraine claims to have captured the 'Boiko towers' along the Crimean peninsula - Timbuktu under a blockade after militants launch series of attacks in Mali - Narco gangs use increasingly sophisticated drones & submarines to peddle drugs across the Atlantic

Pakistan is increasing its nuclear arsenal to 200 warheads | World At War

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hit out at Russian threats to use nuclear weapons as the nation marked 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Sunday (August 6).

On Hiroshima bombing anniversary, Japan decries Russian nuclear threat

The Permanent Mission of Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) to the United Nations criticised the US for having nuclear weapons and defended its own nuclear weapons.

North Korea defends its nuclear weapons, slams US

United States Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) has “no reason to doubt” the claim of Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding moving the tactical nuclear weapons' first batch to Belarus, stated senior DIA officials on Friday (July 21).

US says it has 'no reason to doubt' Putin's claims over nuclear belligerence

Wagner fighters had successfully reached a Russian nuclear base, Voronezh-45, with the intention of seizing small Soviet-era nukes to "raise the stakes" in their recent failed mutiny, reported Reuters quoting Ukraine's head of military intelligence Kyrylo Budanov.

Wagner fighters tried to seize Soviet-era nukes to 'raise stakes' in mutiny: Report

North Korea has blown the whistle against the US. The nation accused the US of violating its airspace by conducting surveillance flights. Pyongyang said it was exercising restraint but warned that it would shoot down such flights.

Why is North Korea accusing the US of 'NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL'?

Humanity is drifting into one of the most dangerous periods in history. The nuclear weapons stockpile across the globe is at an all-time high as deteriorating international relations give rise to increased nuclear sabre-rattling, a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) has revealed.

Peace in our time? Nuclear weapons stockpile rising, says thinktank

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday (June 5) that America won't let Iran get nuclear weapons, reiterating the Biden administration's firm stance against Tehran.

US won't allow Iran get nuclear weapons, says Secretary of State Antony Blinken

A day after US President Joe Biden criticised Russia for deploying tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Moscow has responded. Russia's embassy in the United States released a statement dismissing the criticism, adding that Moscow was moving ahead with the deployment.

Moscow schools US for criticising deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus

Tactical Nuclear Weapons typically refer to short-range weapons. The categorisation includes land-based missiles with a range of less than 500 kilometres & air and sea-launched weapons with a range of less than 600 kilometres. Tactical nukes are the least-regulated category of nuclear weapons covered in arms control agreements. They are only subject to an informal regime created by unilateral, parallel declarations, made by George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev in the fall of 1991.

Russia Ukraine War | US: No signs of Russia prepping to use nukes | World News | WION

Russia-Belarus nuclear agreement; former to send Nuclear Weapons to Belarus

Putin's nuclear doom for Ukraine? First deployment outside Russia since fall of the USSR | Details

South Korea will not develop its own nuclear weapons while the US will aid in the use of them in any potential conflict with North Korea, according to a new agreement, known as the Washington Declaration, signed on Wednesday by President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk Yeol in the White House.

US nuclear weapons for S Korea? Yoon, Biden ink landmark agreement

All power plants, coal, gas & nuclear, have a finite life. Beyond a certain period, it is not economically feasible to operate them. Generally, early nuclear plants were designed for a life of about 30 years. While newer plants are designed for 40 to 60 years of operating life. At the end of the life of any power plant, it needs to be decommissioned, cleaned up & demolished. The work of dismantling a nuclear power plant is painstaking. Germany's last three nuclear reactors will go fully offline by mid-April. They will enter the slow process of decommissioning.

Germany reckons with lengthy nuclear demolition job

North Korea has claimed that it has successfully tested a second underwater nuclear-capable drone. This is the third test of underwater drone that Pyongyang has claimed to have conducted in less than three weeks.

North Korea: Pyongyang claims another successful underwater drone test

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's powerful sister accused Ukraine of calling for nuclear weapons. Kim Yo Jong backed her assertion on the basis of an online petition in Ukraine which was signed by almost 1,000 signatures so far.

North Korea accuses Kyiv of having nuclear ambitions

Whenever we hear the word 'Uranium' in the context of a war, our antennas go up. The nuclear connotations immediately take us back to Second World War during which the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were flattened within seconds due to American nuclear bombs.

Explained | What the fuss over depleted uranium in Ukraine war is about

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has ordered more production of weapons-grade nuclear material to grow the country's Arsenal asserting on how Pyongyang should be ready to use the weapons at any time. As he inspected the country's nuclear weapons program including the new tactical nuclear weapons in technology for mounting Warheads on ballistic missiles, according to the state news media.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un orders scaling up of weapons-grade nuclear materials

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un orders to ramp up production of weapons-grade nuclear material to exponentially expand the countries arsenal. With this latest move, how real is the threat of a nuclear crisis? East Asian geopolitics and security analyst professor Benoit Hardy-Chartrand joins us to discuss the implications.

North Korea to ramp up production of weapons grade nuclear materials

Kim Jong-Un: Aim to defend North Korea against US and South Korea

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